Polkit

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2015–2023), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Polkit, 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 5 complaints

Permission and password prompts constantly appear when using desktops over RDP, requiring hours of config fixes2023-10-01
Commenter cannot understand or debug why Polkit denied permissions2022-01-26
Fails silently with no message, so developers and users cannot diagnose failures2022-01-26
Permission rules are hard to read and configure, making it hard to know what something can do2017-01-24
Can't easily see who is allowed what; errors are silent or incomprehensible2015-06-16