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System V
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2018–2025), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with System 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 4 complaints
- New users get stuck because # and @ erase characters instead of expected keys2025-08-26
- Each init script has its own config approach, hard to rework and not composable2023-06-29
- Dependency-ordering setup with symlink priorities was fragile, so updates felt scary and complex setups were bonkers2021-05-17
- Finding runlevels incredibly confusing and hard to understand2018-11-30