Except for a few layout glitches in Settings Manager that cut off text (if you use a large font), I didn't find anything to complain about during an hour in the live session. Xfce GTK3 is both familiar and "bug free" as far as I can tell. So well done to the Xfce devs. My gut feeling tells me there might be a Xfce 4.14 release in August (this year
)...Xubuntu (in live session) was also working better than expected. Fully functional desktop, no crashes and Internet connection. Maybe there is life after systemd after all. It's pretty vanilla so I don't see a reason to install it. But I'm glad to see a stable (one hour) Ubuntu based distro, because last time I felt Ubuntu and stable could be used in the same sentence was in 2014...
The Snap backdoor (snapd) can be uninstalled, but not the various libsnap packages because they bring pulseaudio with them which most people probably need/want. Good to see they don't push Snaps down the throat of people because having snapd running is a backdoor just like Windows Update in Windows.
RAM usage was high (700+) but CPU was low. Systemd could have made slightly more sense to me if they included one of those fancy systemd management GUIs that have been developed. Unfortunately it seems that those GUIs are mostly abandoned. Probably because systemd has changed so much over the years that keeping a GUI application up to date becomes too much work.
My grandsons like that opa (me) has more time for them, too!