CentOS

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2011–2025), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with CentOS, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 11 complaints

Updater GUI removed itself during routine system update, so user couldn't find it2025-07-08
Confusing product names for people not closely following Red Hat2020-12-08
Installed programs like find have no man page, so users can't get help2019-11-13
Installer is backwards and relies on clicking through screens2018-11-30
Server won't boot after install because EFI boot entry isn't remembered, requiring manual file copying2018-05-15
Networkmanager command syntax is nearly impossible to decipher, and docs and search results are outdated.2015-06-05
Still spends most time in manpages working out config formats2015-06-02
Can't easily search for or find packages not in the base repos2014-11-18
Eth0 defaults to ONBOOT=no, so networking is off after install and confuses users2014-07-08
Must remember a long grub2-mkconfig command every time grub config changes2014-07-08
Navigating the ugly menu on the CentOS homepage is frustrating2011-02-07