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Homo Ludditus
Personal blog · ludditus.comsystemsculture
Homo Ludditus is a personal blog at ludditus.com about systems and culture. Since 2019, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter links a post whose URL names an epic Linux saga, adding a caveat emptor when discussing switching to Linux. The comment is a bare link and does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blog about Linux and more. Formerly Planète Béranger
Most-linked posts?
- Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-08
- Epic Disappointments with Linux2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-03
What Hacker News says?
It certainly is. However, caveat emptor: https://ludditus.com/2024/05/27/epic-linux-saga/
Comment linking /2024/05/27/epic-linux-saga/
on “There Has Never Been a Better Time to Switch to Linux”Submitted Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments? as a story · 72 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nostalgia and fun with calculators as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Long Road to Linux-Only as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is OpenSUSE at Crossroads? as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted 30 Years Defending Linux – Until I Called It Quits as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Don’t Even Know How Terrible Your Linux Distro Is as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted WordPress 6.3 broke my site and theme. Again as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adventures in Linux Ep. 5: The gaiety of having the choice as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kiro seems to have gone amok as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debian gnome team plans to kill GTK2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted KDE5, KDE6, tiling and other Linux rants as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments? (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Epic Disappointments with Linux as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nostalgia and Fun with Calculators as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, but Win10 Is Worse as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The day the Chinese puzzles took over as a story · 1 points
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