Oberon

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with Oberon, 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 9 complaints

Takes a long time to detect USB hub and keyboard/mouse after boot2026-04-12
Found the modern Oberon environments weird and unusable2025-06-11
Zooming and panning around to switch windows would be cumbersome to constantly do2022-08-26
Making all text executable as commands feels counterintuitive and awkward for many everyday tasks2021-01-15
Interface is weird and unconventional, hard to get used to2015-12-25
Users get lost on an infinite plane and can't tell windows apart when zoomed out2015-10-30
Bitmapped screen fonts were too small to read on modern screens2015-08-16
Download links on the site don't work, so the installer can't be found2015-07-07
Weird chorded mouse behaviour required a learning curve before it felt usable2013-10-05