NeXTSTEP

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2014–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with NeXTSTEP, 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 6 complaints

Cluttered UI elements thrown together make it hard to use2025-04-22
Icons and widgets consume too much space, making the UI feel cluttered and complicated2023-06-05
UI toolkit ergonomics lagged behind contemporary Windows in some ways2021-12-14
Copy and untar steps show no progress bar, so users can't tell how long they take2021-08-09
Mouse is so laggy that the system is impossible to use2020-01-28
Clicking a disk in the GUI formatted the wrong drive, the internal boot disk, with no clear warning2014-01-29