LUKS

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2019–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with LUKS, 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

Disk encryption setup described as brittle, awkward and puzzling to use2026-07-02
Command line LUKS password prompt behaves unintuitively for non-technical family members2023-07-18
No GUI and poor feedback while typing the password, so it's confusing2022-02-14
Setting up several separate encrypted partitions requires a manual, fiddly process2019-03-04