Tails

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Tails, 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

GUI performance was terrible with only one browser tab open2025-01-27
Browsing through Tor is painfully slow; keystrokes can take a second to appear2023-09-14
Privacy tools are hard for non-technical people to use properly2022-02-18
Hard for non-technical users to set up, with unclear barriers2016-12-01