Void Linux

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2017–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Void Linux, 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 5 complaints

Distro lags behind nVidia fix, forcing user to disable vsync and get tearing2026-04-26
Installing or overriding bootloader and custom kernel is harder than on Alpine2025-01-21
Live CD can't connect to WPA2-Enterprise networks, and installing is confusing2018-03-25
Has to manually install browsers, and desktop packages are sometimes out-of-date2017-08-28
DuckDuckGo doesn't show Void Wiki results, so user must search via Google2017-08-28