NetBSD

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2016–2026), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with NetBSD, 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 11 complaints

Installing and upgrading is hard; the docs hide the recommended path, and sysupgrade destroyed the install2026-10-28
Terminal corrupts over SSH and needs manual key remapping to work with normal defaults2026-05-13
Donation link in email isn't clickable and donate buttons are tiny, buried under lots of text2025-10-26
Full-screen curses UI gets overwritten by output from other programs; keys like Backspace/Delete behave inconsistently2025-06-04
Author cannot figure out how to configure WireGuard client; existing docs are hard to understand2024-10-12
Cursor keys don't move left and right in the command line2022-08-15
Installer behaves differently than expected, requiring a reboot and separate sysinst step2022-08-15
Installation requires cannibalizing macOS, wasting disk space and taking hours2021-08-31
Hard to install, update and administer; new users get stuck during installation2021-02-25
Keyboard doesn't wake after suspend, requiring manual command typing2017-01-03
Wi-Fi on supported laptop is super slow and unreliable2016-07-05