RISC OS

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with RISC OS, 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 16 complaints

Whole system freezes when accessing a disk or showing an error2026-05-18
Double-clicking an app icon doesn't launch it directly, adding an extra step the author finds confusing2026-05-09
Saving a file means switching to the file manager and opening more windows, which is slow2026-05-09
Mouse buttons are confusing and the Fn key shortcut doesn't work on the keyboard2024-05-13
Middle mouse button and keyboard stop working, unlike on Raspberry Pi OS2024-05-11
Three mouse buttons behave inconsistently and menus open differently depending on which button is clicked2024-05-02
Submenus open only if the mouse slides precisely through the arrow, unlike other menus2024-05-02
Right-click versus middle-click menu behaviour is confusing and easy to get wrong2024-05-02
Setting to boot straight into BASIC is ignored because keyboard drivers load too late2023-09-15
Steep learning curve; hard to learn the Select, Menu and Adjust button functions2022-09-07
Opening a file from inside a program is a pain without a file open dialog2020-06-29
Ctrl-click features are hard to discover, so beginners struggle to explore2020-06-29
Drag and drop is hard to discover and easy to apply wrongly2020-06-29
Interface is non-intuitive for first-time users, relying on a 3-button mouse2018-10-22
GUI cannot be operated from the keyboard at all2015-07-07
Windows must be brought to front to interact, and menus close after each selection2012-11-07