WinUI

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with WinUI, 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 11 complaints

Developers can't tell whether a plain .NET exe is possible; others get obscure errors2026-10-26
Confusing fragmented docs across many C# UI frameworks; missing widgets and rough edges hinder development2025-03-07
Detail view lags and janks when pressing down in the list, updating slowly2022-08-29
Keyboard type-ahead and Ctrl+F search don't work, making keyboard-only use hard2020-05-07
Hard to find actionable components when building with it2020-05-06
Mouse wheel scrolls code block horizontally, trapping page scrolling when pointer is over it2020-05-06
Controls are needlessly hidden in menus, and layouts are cramped and slow2020-05-06
Blue text on dark gray is hard to read2020-05-06
Layout doesn't flow well when the window is resized2020-05-06
Must make many one-off spacing adjustments to first or last items; no app-wide spacing rule2020-03-17
Grid requires manually renumbering every child's row/column index when a row or column is added2020-03-17