Proxmox

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2019–2026), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Proxmox, 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 7 complaints

Array setup failed with a non-descript -1 error, forcing CLI use with -f2026-03-31
Feels sluggish to interact with, especially on large clusters2026-03-29
Permission setup for unprivileged containers requires confusing ID mapping2025-11-14
Configuring read-write mount points on the host is confusing and painful2025-08-05
Phone list shows few tiles, no page progress, no filtering, truncated descriptions2024-11-12
Shift-based keys like shift-2 for @ don't register correctly in the VM console2023-01-15
Can't figure out how to launch a VM from the CLI docs2019-12-05