home-manager

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2020–2024), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with home-manager, 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

Updating packages means manually looking up versions and editing files, which is brittle2024-02-27
Documentation is nearly nonexistent, so figuring out how to do things is hard2023-07-10
Setup is confusing; guides are either too basic or too complicated with Flakes2023-06-24
Each tweak needs a slow 15-second rebuild, making quick iteration painful2022-10-24
Configuration options are backwards and hard to use for config files2022-05-31
Gives difficult-to-understand errors with no clear source reference, such as infinite loops2022-02-19
Documentation is incomplete and errors are hard to understand, making the tool hard to adopt2021-06-03
Changing settings requires editing a config file, rebuilding, and reopening the app2020-09-29