Long-term usage review and report 10 of the Slimbook Executive laptop, with major operating system upgrade from Kubuntu 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS, covering upgrade procedure and associated questions and problems, numerous post-upgrade regressions and bugs like missing programs, unwanted changes in configurations and settings in login screen, Konsole, Kate and desktop, backward-incompatible apt sources management breakage, worse ergonomics with annoying transparency effects, incomplete theming, s...| www.dedoimedo.com
Detailed review of Plasma 6.3 desktop environment, tested as part of KDE neon User Edition distribution on a laptop with AMD processor, integrated graphics and NVMe storage, including upgrade from 6.2 to 6.3, look and feel, customization, visual and functional glitches, system monitor, help pages, Wayland vs X11 functionality, performance and responsiveness, various KDE neon-specific problems like outdated ISO image, buggy installer, package management issues with missing services, missing 32...| www.dedoimedo.com
Review of openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling release distribution, Plasma edition, tested in a multi-boot setup on an AMD-processor laptop with Windows and Linux, covering installation and post-install usage, including smart partitioning defaults, noisy and slow boot process, good look and feel, small customization, average font quality, complicated software management - missing icons, problems with verified and unverified third-party applications, mix of RPM packages and Flatpaks, chain of trust co...| www.dedoimedo.com