Enlightenment

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Enlightenment, 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 6 complaints

Theme designs with dated gradients and clashing buttons look poor and hard to read2026-11-01
Interface was incredibly bad to use, though the commenter loved it for a week2026-11-01
Error messages are unhelpful and unprofessional, such as "You bitch!"2023-12-24
Complex window manager is a pain to run without package manager support2022-06-11
Network manager doesn't work when GNOME is installed alongside, needs a hidden workaround2012-11-11
Clicking screenshots leads to other pages, so full-size images can't be found2012-11-08