Sun workstations

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Sun workstations, 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

Backspace echoes ^H instead of erasing, so the keyboard seems misconfigured out of the box2026-09-21
GUI is worse than Windows 3.11 and runs dog slow2026-09-21
X interface was horribly laggy, putting the commenter off Unix GUIs2026-03-09
Couldn't find a way to pay or buy things on the website2023-02-12
Mouse was laggy because it communicated at 9600 bps2022-04-15
Sun workstations felt very slow compared to Windows PCs of the same era2022-04-15
Machine halts whenever a keyboard is plugged in, disrupting use2020-07-07