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Clarify purpose and target user on homepage

Nate Graham requested to merge work/ngraham/clarify-target-user-on-homepage into master

The neon website makes claims about stability that are misleading.

First of all, by releasing exclusively according to KDE's upstream release schedule, there is by definition no extra time for QA beyond what KDE developers themselves provide, in contrast to every other distro which delays releases and backports patches when needed.

Another source of instability is the Ubuntu base LTS promise which is broken by:

  • Overlaying cutting-edge KDE packages on top
  • Updating system libraries needed to support the above
  • Showing apps only from Snap and Flatpak, not the Canonical-QA'd repos

As a result, the software is a melange from different sources, not something QA'd by Canonical that has a stability guarantee attached to it. It may have started that way, but by the time it reaches users, the LTS base is simply an implementation detail.

And this is all fine! There's a use case for tuning the Speed/Stability dial in the direction of speed, for the benefit of people who want KDE software as fast as possible and can handle some instability.

So let's lean into that angle in neon's marketing copy instead of making stability claims that the product will likely not live up to. This commit modifies the homepage accordingly.

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