Still moving along with 24.04.

 It has been pretty solid, like 23.10.  Ubuntu's implementation of gnome is very nice and wayland is working very well with my 7800XT card.  No complaints at all.

I did, for fun, enable the extension "Burn My Windows" which allows you to enable a variety of special effects upon window creation and destruction.  They are very efficient, being native shaders.  They are pretty cool too.  :D

I watched an interesting KDE6 review the other day.  I feel like I need to experience it, install OpenSUSE or something and try it out, despite how stable Ubuntu has been.  The only problem is I never really LOVED KDE and, while they have actually made some improvements around the decoration aspects that always bothered me, I am hesitant to try it.  The reviewer said "if you didn't like KDE before, you probably won't like it now" despite the improvements.

So anyway...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

 I had already tried to upgrade from 23.10 to 24.04 about a month ago and ran into several issues (which I promptly forgot about once I reverted to 23.10, so don't ask).  Today I took the plunge and upgraded again.  I figured Ubuntu has had a month to iron out some minor issues.

So the install was relatively quick (I have a pretty good internet connection) and after the install and reboot Ubuntu came up fine.  It DID however break my wine setup, so I had to install a few components to fix it (there will probably be other issues)... it did not honor my dpkg architecture settings which indicates amd64 and i386.  I had to tweak it after the fact, but... after installing a couple extra things I was able to use wine to fire up a non-steam, Windows game.   And in fact I think there must have been some more AMD driver improvements because I swear the game actually ran smoother than on 23.10.

On steam, I fired up the frequently fickle World of Warships and it ran great.

I think it is (at least so far) safe to say the upgrade was successful.  I don't record much, I will have to install OBS and see how that works, and while I am sure it is just fine, I need to fire up some of my development applications.

A difference of one month, in this case, was pretty significant.  I am now rocking a safe, long-term version of Ubuntu.  Oh, and it is running gnome 46 as well, a minor upgrade from 23.10 which ran something like 45.x...