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Shells
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2015–2025), in 6 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Shells, 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 6 complaints
- Cp, rsync, mv and find are easy to misuse, hard to remember, and destructive when wrong2025-12-30
- Shell interface is too timid, should be more like a notebook2024-04-25
- Shell plugins are hard to install, uninstall, customise and find2022-11-23
- Shells dump humanly unreadable amounts of stdout and stderr text onto the screen2021-09-11
- Failed commands are silently ignored and set -e is unreliable, making scripts hard to write correctly2021-02-27
- Commands execute immediately with no undo, making guessed input dangerous2015-04-19