Products · Broad category
PC gaming
Raised as a usability problem by 16 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 16 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with PC gaming, 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 16 complaints
- Big Picture has sharp edges, and many PC games lack a couch-friendly controller UI2026-06-25
- Having to get out a keyboard and mouse to log in and open Steam2025-09-25
- Games and the OS often need keyboard and mouse; controllers and local co-op are hard to set up2025-09-24
- Remapping every key for left-hand mouse play is a huge hassle; some games won't allow certain keys2024-10-09
- Must rebind keys every new game, and some games use separate control schemes per context2024-08-03
- Multiple separate launchers each need accounts, run background services, and minimize instead of quitting2024-06-13
- PC gaming needs constant tinkering: drivers, Windows quirks, and fixes after breakage2023-11-22
- PC gaming is awkward and annoying to use2023-06-05
- Launchers need fiddling, fail offline, and repeatedly demand password re-entry with gamepad controls2022-08-15
- Buttons and inputs on the settings screen do not work2021-11-14
- Games with fixed keys can't be played with a Colemak keyboard layout2021-04-23
- Each non-Steam store needs another login and a launcher that stays running with constant updates2019-04-07
- Each PC store launcher has laggy startup, different UX, and separate friends lists to maintain2018-12-04
- Out-of-game interface is worse on PC; other clients lack Big Picture-style living room mode2018-01-24
- Many PC games have poor controller support, tiny unreadable fonts, and mouse-only launchers and popups2016-04-28
- Too many hoops to jump through to get games working on PC2010-02-19