In my experience the kernel and drivers are better than ever, but the desktops are awful and have grown worse. When KDE 4 came out I went to simple window mana

In my experience the kernel and drivers are better than ever, but the desktops are awful and have grown worse. When KDE 4 came out I went to simple window managers like i3 and fvwm. These are extremely stable but things as simple as looking at photos in file manager are painful, and forgetting how to change the clock when I fly to a new timezone is frustrating.