Kubuntu 24.04, it's been a few months now ...
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Kubuntu 24.04 has improved massively since its release. This is a great thing. But in an ideal world, it would not have been released before being thoroughly tested and polished, like it is now. Technically speaking, the release dates are entirely arbitrarily. If everyone "waits" for the dot release anyway, then there's no value to GA, except for people to get themselves burned with early, unnecessary problems and bugs. It's like, let's sacrifice our biggest fans, they will come back regardless. This sort of approach seems quite common in the software world - a poor excuse for the laborious diligence of proper QA.
This distro could have been launched in July or September just as it was in April, except it would have been nice and slick and elegant by then. And it can still get better. Evidently, as my two post-install reviews clearly show. However, on its own, Kubuntu 24.04 has become a usable system. I cannot ignore what happened early on, my confidence levels ain't skyrocketing, but I'm pleased nonetheless. Well, there we go. Off to the next escapade.