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Citrix
Raised as a usability problem by 25 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2010–2025), in 17 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Keystrokes lag 300-400ms, so typos appear lateUnreviewed
20102026- Keystrokes lag 300-400ms, so typos show up late and window switching feels sluggish2024-02-29
- Applications feel laggy because of input latency between keyboard and display2021-08-19
- Typing lags by long delays, sometimes several seconds, distracting while coding2021-07-14
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 26 complaints
- Generic error on typo makes users retry until locked out2025-09-16
- Keystrokes lag 300-400ms, so typos show up late and window switching feels sluggish2024-02-29
- Automation can't find form controls, forcing fragile coordinate-based clicking2023-08-22
- Having to go two Citrix sessions deep to reach some things2022-10-06
- Alt key doesn't work, forcing custom shortcuts instead of usual VSCode ones2022-10-06
- User didn't realize they were in a remote session and used it for an hour2022-10-06
- Extremely slow with constant lag when used at a client2022-10-01
- Hidden update-notification setting buried in the worst settings menu on Mac2022-10-01
- Install corrupts itself, and the uninstaller leaves leftovers needing a separate cleanup tool2022-09-30
- Actual login username is very hard to find, forcing users to post on forums2022-02-16
- Typed code appears seconds later, making the session infuriating to use2022-01-31
- Remote desktop was too slow with graphical glitches, making it hard to work2022-01-31
- Remote desktop sessions frequently fail to work properly for users2022-01-31
- A single keypress can take seconds to register2021-09-03
- Impossible to simply download and spin up a lab to test2021-08-19
- Applications feel laggy because of input latency between keyboard and display2021-08-19
- Staff work through a sluggish, crawling remote desktop, halving productivity2021-08-19
- Developers must run build tools inside a remote Windows VM, with awkward cross-environment steps2021-07-14
- Typing lags by long delays, sometimes several seconds, distracting while coding2021-07-14
- Mouse and keystrokes show no response, so user can't tell if remote or network is slow2020-06-17
- Host name validation requires a separate SSL profile per host name, making it practically unusable2019-08-23
- Users habitually click past the confirmation dialog, so it stops protecting against mistakes2018-01-16
- Shared Citrix logins make Office file locking break, with files wrongly appearing in use2016-12-20
- Remote Citrix-delivered apps feel glitchy and laggy to use2015-10-22
- Windows apps published via Citrix are awkward to use on a touch iPad2012-06-19
- The interface is dated and terrible to use, though the software underneath is solid2010-04-19