StumpWM

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2014–2022), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with StumpWM, 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

Getting one interface to navigate both buffers and windows was non-trivial and circuitous2022-12-04
Window manager was very slow and often couldn't keep up with commands2017-01-13
Popup and modal windows are more annoying than usual under tiling2016-04-18
Closing a program leaves a blank gap in the split layout and requires manual unsplitting and resplitting2014-08-11
Pop-up dialogs act oddly, menus appear full screen and progress dialogs steal focus2014-08-11