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John Woltman
Personal blog · woltman.comprogrammingdesign
John Woltman's personal blog at woltman.com covers programming and design. Since 2024, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “I Don't Care for Gnome”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's GNOME critiques, such as the gnome-bad post, to argue that GNOME is opinionated and has usability problems. Other posts cover menu design.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
John Woltman's Blog, covering computers, photography, and travel
Most-linked posts?
- I Don't Care for Gnome5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-08-31
What Hacker News says?
> GNOME is great For a different opinion, please see https://woltman.com/gnome-bad/ GNOME is extremely opinionated.
Comment linking /gnome-bad/
on “Apple Introduces MacBook Pro with All‑New M5 Pro and M5 Max”Submitted I Don't Care for Gnome as a story · 50 points
HN discussionI tried to use GNOME for about 8 months but there was just too many WTF moments (one caused by Ubuntu's own dock extension). There's plenty to love about GNOME but missing features, bugs, and design/usability issues makes it feel like beta quality software. A few months ago, someone wrote a blog post[1] cataloguing many of these issues. One thing not mentioned was the lack of a caps/num lock on-screen indicator, thi…
Comment linking /gnome-bad/
on “Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop”Submitted I Don't Care for Gnome (2024) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMy I present GNOME: https://woltman.com/media/posts/244/gr-menus-moving-around-3... Because having a full menu bar at the top made it too easy to find options.
Comment linking /media/posts/244/gr-menus-moving-around-3.jpg
on “The hamburger-menu icon today: Is it recognizable?”The author has done a great job at highlighting some of the more egregious parts here: https://woltman.com/gnome-bad/
Comment linking /gnome-bad/
on “Win11Debloat – declutter and improve your Windows experience”
