UWP

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2017–2024), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with UWP, 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

Developers spend all their time fighting the framework and broken, unpolished parts2024-05-02
Troubleshooting sandbox issues and configuring capabilities were painful for developers, and no opt-out existed2022-02-27
Multiple incompatible SDK versions make UWP development hard to get right2020-05-19
Cryptic framework exceptions and no proper stack traces make debugging hard2018-01-17
Scaling apps from phone to desktop is very hard and still unsolved2017-10-09
UWP apps can only access limited folders; adding more requires the older Win32 file picker2017-01-27
Resizing an image and reading its pixels requires a nightmarish, undiscoverable API process2017-01-15