What is the answer to Linux, multiverse and constant forking? It's all here in this long, thorough and enthusiastic review of Kubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus 64-bit edition, tested on a laptop with UEFI, Secure Boot, GPT, 16 partitions, and multiple instances of Windows and Linux, covering live session, installation, and post-install use, including look & feel, numerous usability improvements, seamless Wireless and Bluetooth, Samba sharing, Wireless but no Samba printing, partitioning, slideshow, multimedia - HD video and MP3 playback including external devices, smartphone support - Windows Phone and Ubuntu Phone, package management, default and extra applications, excellent hardware support, drivers, seamless suspend & resume, low resource usage, smooth performance, responsiveness, good battery life, crisp fonts, some customization, small problems, and more. Boom! http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/kubuntu-zesty.html Cheers, Mrk
Have these improvements trickled down to the the LTS release, Xenial Xerus? Initial point release was a disaster. Hopefully, all the bugs will be gone by the new release next year. Rather than the convergence thingy, Ubuntu is better served improving its desktop products. Looks like that is happening across the Ubuntu family of flavors.
With regards to Plasma, good thing KDE moved it to an LTS version. I'm just sick of pointless progress for the sake of pointless progress. Keep the main features intact and just fix bugs and get us to the next LTS release. No reason in the world for product churn. There really isn't any point to it. If all developers did this, there would be hope for Linux and no more misery attendant upon ugly regressions. And let's have Linux that allows people do computing tasks quickly and easily. Not too a high bar.
Thanks. KDE is indeed a portentous piece of software, but did it have to take more than two years for Plasma 5 to show a semblance of stability and polish? Something similar happened with KDE 4 if I remember well.