LyX

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2013–2024), in 11 threads.

People raised many different problems with LyX, 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 13 complaints

Could not make LyX 2.x bend to user's taste; less usable than 1.x2024-02-02
LaTeX errors surfacing in LyX are often really confusing to understand2019-03-22
LaTeX import functionality is very patchy2019-01-09
Import function is almost unusable for bringing in existing LaTeX work2018-11-23
Tables won't split across pages by default, unlike Word or Google Docs2018-08-28
Too opinionated to paste into from the browser2018-08-08
Default line wrapping makes git diffs hard to read and changes hard to find2016-02-15
Multilingual text needs manual XeTeX setup and per-phrase language markup2016-02-15
Conference and journal style files sometimes need an extra layer of adaptation2016-02-14
Insists on specific document structures, forcing the writer to fight them2015-02-18
Layout view is hard to get; line breaks approximate and no pagination shown2014-11-17
Videos demonstrating LyX rely on mouse menus, hiding the keyboard efficiency2013-11-21
Typing equations is slow and buggy, lagging behind typing text2013-02-22