UTM

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with UTM, 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 10 complaints

Bidirectional copy-paste between macOS host and guest is unreliable and fragile2026-04-29
Hard to figure out how to mount shared directory; SSH connection fails unless run with sudo2025-06-11
Emulated x86 Windows is unusable, with GUI apps too slow to use2025-05-12
X86 Windows under emulation is so slow it is unusable2025-04-17
Emulating Linux on iPad is so slow and broken the user gave up2024-08-25
Without the Magic Keyboard, using desktop software requires annoying mouse and keyboard emulation2024-06-10
Must shut down all VMs and close windows to reopen library or view settings2023-09-29
Install fails, leaving a blinking cursor on a black screen2023-08-31
Ubuntu install hangs and the installed OS shows a black screen2023-08-13
VM crashes after reboot; must reopen app and VM settings repeatedly to recover2020-03-02