Lenovo keyboards

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2014–2026), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with Lenovo keyboards, 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

Fn key sits where Ctrl usually is, so copy and paste mistakes happen2026-01-11
Scrolling requires two separate inputs, switching to scroll mode while moving the trackpoint2025-08-26
Vowel keys register repeated or extra presses because of bad debouncing2025-01-08
Too many unused, small, cramped keys; must keep looking down to find fingers' positions2024-01-05
ESC key is awkward to reach without leaving home row2022-12-18
Keys move around but offer little useful function, and there is no tactile feedback2016-11-22
Registry hacks needed to make apps use the adaptive keyboard, inconsistent results2016-11-02
Oversized PrtSc key sits between AltGr and Ctrl, so it is easy to hit by accident2015-04-25
Function keys need Fn plus other modifiers, so closing a window is awkward2014-05-03