DOSBox

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with DOSBox, 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 5 complaints

Exiting full-screen needs hunting through an ini file, and mouse capture is hard to turn off2026-03-29
Mouse movement feels janky and config menus are dated, hard for non-technical users2025-02-23
Couldn't figure out how to get a disc image running2024-07-12
Can't open EXE files or make app shortcuts, so each game needs a terminal command2012-01-05
DOSBox is extremely painful to use on the Mac2011-03-24