Haiku OS

Raised as a usability problem by 18 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 16 threads.

People raised many different problems with Haiku OS, 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 18 complaints

Text is too small to read and no global way to enlarge widgets2026-09-11
Dislikes the overall user experience and ergonomics of the operating system2026-07-24
Mail client broke after setup and user couldn't find the logs to diagnose it2024-01-15
Display starts at wrong resolution, looking blurry until user changes it manually in Screen settings2022-12-24
Can't find any screenshots of the release on the website2022-12-23
Email app struggles with modern mail volumes like huge inboxes and filters2021-08-26
Can't get used to how menus work, hard to learn2021-08-20
YouTube player buggy and choppy; WebAssembly doesn't work in the browser2021-07-26
UI is unusably laggy when running inside a VM2021-02-07
Switching windows requires many swipes through a linear line instead of one click2020-06-10
Commenter couldn't figure out how to use Haiku and found it not intuitive2020-01-10
Browser shows no pages and user can't find the package install command2019-01-13
Display flickers, lags, and corrupts when switching resolution, making it unusable2018-12-28
Can't find the is_computer_on_fire and is_computer_turned_on calls in the docs2017-12-21
Could not get it to install; needed a VirtualBox workaround2013-12-31
Interface is clunky and dated compared to current interfaces2011-01-05
Interface requires too many clicks; file manager is poor2011-01-05
Keyboard shortcuts and small details don't work as they should2010-05-10