postmarketOS

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with postmarketOS, 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 10 complaints

Project admits it is not yet usable or stable enough for ordinary people2026-09-18
Camera is unusable in its current form on the phone2026-08-06
Painful to daily-drive and unusable for many common smartphone tasks2025-10-04
Documentation is split across old and new project names, so searching is confusing2025-03-05
No sound and videos won't play, and touchscreen behaves erratically2023-09-14
App repo lists only installed apps, so users must search by name2021-03-24
PostmarketOS is not usable in touch mode2021-03-17
UI feels sluggish and slow to respond2020-09-13
Feels sluggish and was unusable when first tried2020-05-15
Was unusable for the commenter on this mobile OS2020-02-10