RHEL

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2014–2026), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with RHEL, 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

PostgreSQL isn't initialized on install, requiring manual database init steps2026-09-23
Default Python on RHEL 7 is very old and unintuitive to update2021-10-04
Tuning Linux for very low latency became very difficult in RHEL 72020-04-25
First user not made administrator unless a checkbox is ticked2016-12-21
Has to hunt down and add separate repos to install common software like Chrome2014-10-29