Grumpy, mostly negative review of Kubuntu 24.04 LTS, tested on a 10-year-old laptop with hybrid Intel and Nvidia graphics and recent SSD upgrade, covering live session, installation, and post-install usage, including bland look and feel, sluggish mouse pointer, non-intuitive partitioning and encryption step, blurry installer wizard slides, enormous difficulties with the graphics driver setup, lack of GUI-driven drivers utility, use of CLI-driven drivers tool recommended autoinstall option and subsequent loss of network and display-resolution anomaly, previous kernel recovery, manual driver setup, boot time, responsiveness, suspend & resume behavior, average default program set, extra software setup - GIMP, VLC and Steam, Plasma System Monitor lag, numerous functional and performance regressions in comparison to Linux distributions from a decade ago, various bugs and issues related to the desktop, other observations, and more