Products · Broad category
KDE and GNOME
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2017–2024), in 4 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with KDE and GNOME, 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 4 complaints
- Linux desktop UIs are not as friendly to use as ChromeOS2024-12-04
- Scaling enlarges all UI elements, reducing density and blurring thumbnails instead of just text2024-10-06
- Making KDE or GNOME work with i3 is brittle and hacky to set up2022-04-01
- Major desktop redesigns replaced familiar interfaces, forcing users to switch environments2017-02-21