Grumpy, mostly negative review of Kubuntu 24.04 LTS, tested on a 10-year-old laptop with hybrid Intel and Nvidia graphics and recent SSD upgrade, covering live session, installation, and post-install usage, including bland look and feel, sluggish mouse pointer, non-intuitive partitioning and encryption step, blurry installer wizard slides, enormous difficulties with the graphics driver setup, lack of GUI-driven drivers utility, use of CLI-driven drivers tool recommended autoinstall option and...