Laptop: a well worn-in kubuntu 16.04 - browsing and general use Desktop is a 3-way boot: o stable KDE Neon for games (via steam) and media o separate up-to-d

Laptop: a well worn-in kubuntu 16.04 - browsing and general use Desktop is a 3-way boot: o stable KDE Neon for games (via steam) and media o separate up-to-date KDE Neon for development and fun, o separate Slackware 14.2/current for low-latency audio tinkering and avoiding systemd in general. My main gripe with all of these is updates changing things that already work, often for the worse (are you listening, Firefox?!) But it's still better (for my software requirements and use cases) than either of the two main commercial alternatives, one of which is accelerating ever harder down the road user hostile forced updates and telemetry, while the other has just signaled its intent to obsolete the entire hardware platform of its current user base.