I am using PSPP in an undergrad social science stat course with 110 students. These students only use PSPP in GUI mode. We are evaluating PSPP as a possible replacement for SPSS in our undergraduate courses. After two weeks of use, here are two issues that the students are complaining about:
1) p-values are displayed in default F8.2 format and they need to report them with 3 decimal places. This will be another problem when we get to correlations and they need to report correlation estimates with 3 decimals (remember they are only using point and click options). Maybe changing to F7.3 for p-values and correlations would be an easy fix.
2) when entering data, they get the following error message when then move to a new column:
warning: Data is not valid as format F: Number followed by garbage.
Both issues are minor but in the minds of these types of students they think their program is "broken" or "full of bugs".