RISC-V

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2017–2024), in 12 threads.

People raised many different problems with RISC-V, 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 12 complaints

Hard to configure in many cases, which the commenter finds annoying2024-12-11
Site search finds nothing; specs are scattered across PDFs, subdomains and docs2024-11-11
Each change requires build, flash, restart, and no console printing for debugging2024-04-21
GUI is very slow and nearly unusable on most boards2024-01-16
Dynamic-loading paginated HTML page is so annoying it is effectively unusable2023-07-08
Would be almost unusable as a laptop2023-06-23
Bottom row layout with small buttons makes hand placement error-prone2023-02-11
Emulated fallback for missing instructions makes programs too slow to use2022-11-16
Trackpad is unusable out of the box, needs community patch2022-03-15
Documentation on legal assembly syntax is terrible, making it hard to know what is valid2020-10-26
Dev tools are hard to use and based on a gcc fork2019-08-30
Sign-up link is at the bottom of the page instead of the top2017-10-04