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Red Hat
Raised as a usability problem by 24 people on Hacker News over 18 years (2009–2026), in 24 threads.
People raised many different problems with Red Hat, 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 22 complaints
- Hard to find sections; code examples not distinct and can't be selected2026-05-22
- Default desktop UI was so ugly and clunky, forcing a manual KDE build2025-06-15
- CLI-only Red Hat setup is so hard users give up and need support2024-08-19
- Easy to get X settings wrong with no obvious way to revisit the installer2024-07-11
- Bug reporting requires multiple accounts, gives no feedback, and forces detailed system information collection2023-07-07
- Often couldn't get a working display driver, and the stock VGA driver was very slow2023-05-18
- Admin account must be created by hand, then user creation disabled separately2023-04-16
- Module naming and marketing confused people, making repositories hard to understand2022-08-11
- Advisory pages block reading behind cookie consent prompts requiring clicks2022-03-29
- Docs appear in search results but are blocked behind a login2021-05-27
- Documentation behind a paywall is hard for users to access2021-03-21
- Pop-up had to be fought repeatedly, making the page hard to read on iPhone2019-05-09
- Screen reader output unclear when navigating checkboxes and toggling them, requiring manual review2018-08-07
- Channel concept is unbelievably confusing and complicated to work with2018-05-27
- Commenter feels Red Hat's products became complex and user-hostile, raising switching costs2018-01-31
- Fixed side menu blocks the reader on small screens and its close X is hard to find2017-08-02
- Installed daemons inconsistently start on boot, so admins must check chkconfig after setup2014-06-27
- Gnome is labelled just "Desktop", so users get it without knowing they chose it2013-12-11
- Apache restart script named differently from other services, and config symlinks clutter /etc2012-06-29
- Desktop UI was super slow, browsing half as fast as Windows in 20022012-03-18
- Can't find the right -dev or -devel package needed to install a gem2009-08-13
- Felt overwhelmed by the options and lacked a familiar Windows feel2009-07-10