rvm

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2012–2021), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with rvm, 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 7 complaints

Installing a tool requires rvm, which makes a mess the user cannot untangle2021-09-21
Installation of RVM and its build dependencies is brittle and hard to test2013-10-29
Complex shell-builtin overriding makes the simple plain-PATH usage mode unreachable2013-10-18
Install silently breaks man pages and causes confusing errors by altering shell setup2013-10-18
Installs silently modify dotfiles, breaking man paths and making other tools fail confusingly2013-10-18
Multi-Ruby version managers feel like too much overhead to use2012-12-17
Managing a Ruby software environment takes too many hoops to get working2012-02-13