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QubesOS
Raised as a usability problem by 27 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 19 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Copy and paste between VMs takes four keystrokes due to separate clipboardsUnreviewed
20162026- Copying between VMs takes four steps through clipboards, slowing productivity2024-11-08
- Copying between VMs needs a four-keystroke sequence that is easy to get wrong2023-07-25
- Couldn't figure out how to move or share files between VMs securely2022-07-10
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 28 complaints
- Hard to understand what Qubes is doing, so user doubts their own security setup2025-03-15
- Resizing the Windows qube screen repeatedly crashes the GUI driver, so the window disappears2025-01-13
- Scrolling web pages with large images is laggy2025-01-13
- Strange USB device behavior, perceptible latency, and sleep problems on battery2024-11-23
- Copying between VMs takes four steps through clipboards, slowing productivity2024-11-08
- Screen tearing persists because the desktop still relies on Xorg2024-02-29
- Qubes is hard to use, so a project was started to make its concept more usable2023-08-18
- Copy-and-paste between qubes requires extra steps, a learning curve for users2023-08-18
- Copying between VMs needs a four-keystroke sequence that is easy to get wrong2023-07-25
- Non-100% scaling is hard to set up; users say no documentation exists2022-08-15
- Slow to use, and non-100% scaling leaves VMs unscaled with no docs2022-08-15
- Installer freezes randomly, needing hard shutoffs and multiple retries before it works2022-07-20
- Couldn't figure out how to move or share files between VMs securely2022-07-10
- The UI becomes unresponsive, leaving the user only able to force a reboot2022-03-23
- Couldn't get font size settings to be respected on Debian-based Qubes2022-03-23
- Must manually redirect the USB keyboard to each qube, which is tedious2022-03-23
- Qubes is barely usable, and still close to unusable for web conferences2021-12-22
- Qubes' security layers get in the way and the user experience feels poor2021-12-13
- Making UI changes in dom0 is practically impossible without significant risk2021-12-01
- Clipboard copy between VMs announces activity but nothing ever happens2021-03-08
- Copy/paste and moving files between VMs is clunky and awkward2021-03-08
- VM manager interaction is sluggish and networking/audio randomly stop, requiring reboot2021-03-07
- Took a long time to get Bluetooth devices to pair and stay connected after reboots2018-10-25
- Found it slightly too inconvenient to use2018-10-24
- Steep learning curve; takes a week to get integrated and be productive2016-09-29
- Copying and pasting between VMs takes four keystrokes because each VM has its own clipboard2016-09-29
- Copy-pasting between VMs requires multiple keyboard shortcuts2016-09-29
- Launching, tearing down zones and moving files takes many steps2016-09-29