apt-get to Breezy - time to upgrade?

[encyclo]

I've been running Kubuntu 5.04 (Hoary) from almost the day of release back in April - at first, KDE (especially Konqueror) was pretty buggy, and I seriously considered switching to another distro despite all the good points (apt-get, great software choice, UTF-8 locale, stability of the base system...). An upgrade to KDE 3.4.1 released by the Kubuntu team fixed the KDE issues and things have been going very smoothly since. (K)ubuntu is certainly a very impressive OS.

So what's the current verdict on Breezy (5.10)? I see that there is KDE 3.4.3, which should not be very different to what I have now. In fact, I don't see very much reason to upgrade other than the fact that it may well be easier to do it now via apt-get rather than waiting a few releases and having to reinstall the thing. Is Breezy more stable than the initial Hoary release? Are there still bugs which need to be ironed out? Should I upgrade, or should I wait for a couple of months?

[jezra]

I can't mention any specifics of Kubuntu as I use Ubuntu. That being said, I've two test machines running 5.10. One is a clean install from disk, one is a very low end laptop with no CD drive that I apt-get dist-upgraded from hoary to breezy with no problem. I haven't run into any bugs yet but I mostly use the 2 machines for development work. If your main reason for wanting to upgrade is to have KDE 3.4.3, then I would say wait. However, there may also be some security fixes that are in 5.10 that haven't been backported to hoary yet.

[krod]

Its not the distro that is giving you the problems most likely, its KDE. You may want to try compiling it yourself, compiling it yourself results in less load time and less bugs.