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Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2009–2017), in 5 threads.
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Running Java GUI apps on Linux needs days of JVM troubleshootingUnreviewed
20092026- Running Java GUI apps on Linux causes days of esoteric JVM troubleshooting, with fixes breaking yearly2017-05-01
- Starting the JVM each time makes tools like sbt and lein painfully slow2013-09-12
- Managing the Java runtime on Windows is painful, with long slow updates2012-08-19
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 5 complaints
- Running Java GUI apps on Linux causes days of esoteric JVM troubleshooting, with fixes breaking yearly2017-05-01
- Starting the JVM each time makes tools like sbt and lein painfully slow2013-09-12
- Updates repeatedly fail with cryptic error messages, leaving users on old versions2013-08-27
- Managing the Java runtime on Windows is painful, with long slow updates2012-08-19
- Couldn't figure out which Java edition to download among confusing options2009-09-29