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Virtual machines
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2016–2026), in 8 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Virtual machines, 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 8 complaints
- VM managers feel clunky and GPU acceleration for Windows guests is hard to get2026-01-28
- Mouse acceleration is so strong the pointer is unusable2024-11-11
- Remembering which OS shell is active for shortcuts, clipboard and switching programs2024-02-17
- Starting and connecting to VMs is more cumbersome than running a Docker container2021-01-21
- Keyboard and mouse buttons get stuck in VMs under load2020-11-16
- VM experience for graphical Windows apps is awful, so the user gives up2019-07-30
- GUI in virtual machines is annoyingly slow and laggy2018-10-25
- VM mouse lag and confusing copy/paste hotkeys differ from the host2016-02-08