Kubuntu 24.04 is my scapegoat here today, but it's EVERY distro. EVERY single one. Big, small, medium rare. Whatever. Release after release, the developers play in their sandboxes, writing code for the sake of it, enjoying their nerdy games, while the world slowly marches into the maws of corporate gulags. The perfect combo of arrogance of creating important operating systems that could change the world and the childish disdain for stability and responsibility. In a nutshell, Linux needs 100x more testing, not 100x more distros. For every developer, there should be 20 testers. Not the other around. In fact, since there are NO testers, and in the best case, the developers do the testing themselves, the actual number is zero, so the mathematics don't apply.

Yes, I know, I suck big hairy monkey balls, I don't understand open source, I'm a Microsoft shill, I'm a five-star idiot, you need to report a bug, volunteers don't have time to test, whatever, choose your preferred narrative to justify your own bubble of ignorance. The simple fact is, I want to build a reliable, mature productive future for myself with Linux, and the ecosystem prevents me from doing that. Because reliable and mature seem to be alien words. The depth of my frustration, after TWENTY years of trying to nudge Linux in the right direction, is unfathomable. The Linux desktop refuses to be nudged. The messy underdog is what it ever wants and aspires to