Eagle PCB designer

Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 14 threads.

People raised many different problems with Eagle PCB designer, 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 15 complaints

Copy and paste behaves in confusing, broken ways; UX decisions are poor2025-06-17
Copy/paste works differently from other programs, so it is confusing to use2023-05-12
Moving parts just shifts vertices, forcing annoying manual trace rerouting2022-08-09
Eagle's user interface was a pain to use, pushing the commenter to KiCad2021-10-27
User found the tool so hard to learn they never finished a design2021-02-27
Controls are completely unintuitive and the tool has many pitfalls2020-05-04
UI looks dated, like Windows 95, and changes with every update2019-03-22
Hard to work out how to copy and paste within the software2018-03-07
UI is bizarre and flaws went unfixed for years2015-12-05
Eagle is very tedious and confusing to use for PCB design2015-08-16
Footprints must be redrawn from datasheets, and copy-pasting them invites errors and inconsistent naming2014-09-17
Commenter finds Eagle's interface extremely hard to use2014-09-17
Terrible UI makes simple tasks feel like twice the work2014-04-24
PCB design software is so cumbersome and maddening the commenter gave up quickly2013-07-06
Linux version of Eagle feels clunky to use2013-04-17