Gentoo

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Gentoo, 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

Changing the menu icon setting had no visible effect and the menu still showed the old icon2026-10-16
Compiling packages from source makes waiting for tools too slow2023-12-29
Important error is buried at the end of a wall of logging2022-10-19
Contributing to the community is cumbersome and hard to do2022-09-03
Broken packages require mental effort to fix, which the commenter is tired of2021-02-21
Mascot blurb moved to an about page that is hard to find2018-12-19
Switching from ffmpeg to libav caused dependency issues that took months to fix2015-07-25
Package masking is hard to turn off, causing annoyance at times2010-08-03