htop

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2016–2021), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with htop, 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 9 complaints

Thread-hiding shortcut Shift+H is not listed on the help screen, so users can't discover it2021-01-19
Threads clutter the process list, with redundant cells repeated for each thread2021-01-19
Settings can only be set interactively, so defaults must be re-set on every user and machine2021-01-19
Hundreds of threads by default make it hard to get an overview of the system2021-01-19
Default view doesn't show thread counts; users must find a hidden column via search2021-01-19
Users can't discover the thread-hiding option, and purple colouring appears with no explanation or way to undo it2021-01-19
Can't find the vim_mode option in the menus, so must edit the rc file2020-09-01
Lags badly and becomes nearly unusable when showing thousands of tasks and threads2019-11-01
Search requires pressing F3 and lacks filtering like Vim's workflow2016-02-11