Products · Broad category
Work laptops and software
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2019–2026), in 11 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 Work laptops and software, 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 9 complaints
- Too many automated notifications from work tools to sift through2026-05-08
- Laptop takes 10 seconds to open VSCode and barely repaints external monitors when moving windows2025-01-12
- Everything is very slow to respond with many apps and VPN running2024-05-24
- Touch input is accidentally triggered, disrupting whatever is on screen2023-09-12
- Has to keep closing Chrome tabs to avoid slowdowns on half-RAM laptop2022-11-14
- Computer is so sluggish that moving windows around feels slow2022-10-21
- Forced to log in again every other day for work SSO2021-09-25
- Work software UIs are poor because buyers who aren't end users choose them2019-12-19
- Sleep mapped to F5 causes accidental sleep when reloading or debugging2019-01-23