OLPC XO laptop

Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2008–2022), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with OLPC XO laptop, 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 14 complaints

Sugar UI is awful and the keyboard is borderline unusable2022-01-17
Completely unfamiliar user interface that people found hard to use2020-07-29
UI and apps are so slow that doing anything is unusable2020-06-02
Software user interface was bizarre and many advertised features were unusable or barely usable2019-09-23
Touchpad accuracy was poor, frustrating users enough to stop using it2018-04-17
Regular display mode is blurry, grainy, dim and hard to see2018-04-16
System is very slow and sluggish to use, performing like a low-end 486 under heavy swap2018-04-16
Membrane keyboard was almost unusable for typing2018-04-16
Laptops were so unusable that developers used high-end workstations instead2018-04-16
Adults find the interface confusing and can't follow what the child does on it2013-07-17
The keyboard is terrible to type on2013-03-25
UI is clunky and hard for non-PC-savvy users to use2012-04-07
Sugar interface is described as absolutely terrible to use2011-12-26
Copy and paste in Sugar is clunky and slow, and doesn't work in the terminal2008-01-03