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OS/2
Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 18 years (2009–2026), in 14 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
- 1One crashed app locks up the entire GUIUnreviewed
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One crashed app locks up the entire GUIUnreviewed
20092026- A single badly written program can freeze the whole user interface2024-12-18
- One crashed app locks up the entire GUI; interface feels unintuitive and sluggish2023-10-20
- A hanging application freezes the whole UI with no way to recover2022-10-07
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 18 complaints
- UI described as terrible, with no specific problem given2026-03-25
- A misbehaving app blocks input for all apps and corrupts the UI2025-10-30
- Hard to install, network and add drivers; setup was a pig2024-12-18
- A single badly written program can freeze the whole user interface2024-12-18
- Desktop was overly complicated, with no OK/Cancel buttons and confusing shadow icons2024-03-06
- Long folder names on HPFS drives are invisible to DOS programs, so files can't be opened2024-03-06
- One crashed app locks up the entire GUI; interface feels unintuitive and sluggish2023-10-20
- Extremely slow and sluggish to use on typical consumer PCs of the era2022-10-09
- A hanging application freezes the whole UI with no way to recover2022-10-07
- Misbehaving apps can lock up the whole OS, and the interface feels unintuitive2022-02-27
- GUI hangs and becomes unresponsive when one misbehaving program blocks the message queue2021-07-21
- Desktop is very weird and clunky to use2020-11-02
- Installer fails confusingly unless the PC's cache memory is disabled first2019-11-30
- Grid arrange command rearranges all icons, destroying carefully positioned layout with no alignment option2013-05-12
- No way to arrange desktop icons on a grid, so the desktop becomes a mess2013-05-12
- The UI felt weird, and the OS needed too much RAM2012-04-02
- Connecting computers to a network required calling an enterprise sales rep and deciphering product packages2012-04-02
- Installed it after hours of frustration but few drivers worked, so basic tasks like printing failed2009-07-02