Cockpit

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2019–2026), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Cockpit, 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 8 complaints

Can't move files; must copy, paste, then manually delete the original2026-03-20
Cannot log in with anything except user password, and it listens on 0.0.0.0 by default, forcing manual start and stop over SSH2025-09-07
Browser-based VM management has latency and fewer features than desktop tools2023-10-16
Only works with NetworkManager, so complex VM network setups make it unusable2023-10-16
Documented install command failed; user had to find a different working command elsewhere2022-05-19
Certain components crash, forcing the user to reload the web page2021-02-19
No web tool found to manage Wi-Fi, keyboard, display, mouse2019-09-20
Maps underlying functions straight to buttons without considering actual UI or UX2019-05-07