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MSI installers
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2013–2023), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with MSI installers, 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
- Installer prompts user to close Explorer.exe unless developers jump through hoops2023-09-13
- Reinstalling or uninstalling takes many windows and repeated next clicks2022-04-11
- MSI installer UI is messy, especially around updates2016-08-08
- Writing MSI installers is painful, with versioning and file metadata requirements that are hard to manage2013-10-17