Kubuntu

Reader supplied reviews for Kubuntu Average rating 8.4 from 96 review(s) Please selecting a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on Kubuntu? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 23.0422.1022.0421.1021.0420.1020.0419.1019.0418.1018.0417.1017.0416.1016.0415.1015.0414.1014.0413.1013.0412.1012.0411.1011.0410.1010.049.109.048.108.047.107.046.106.065.105.04 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 22.04 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-10-01 Votes: 0 I've been a part time Linux user for 20+ years, full time Linux user on my remote servers for a couple years but just recently full time on my laptop. I have been using Kubuntu 22.04 full time for about two months now and it work's with all my hardware on two different laptops, a 2015 i5 Toshiba and a 2022 i7 Asus, I'm not sure why it's not higher in the standings as the performance/snappiness seems to out perform other leading distros I've tried. Coming from Windows 10 I like the desktop layout, I use open vpn client, wifi6 and wpa3, and it all sets up and performs great! I'm not a gamer, mostly financials, video & photo editing and some programming on few remote servers. I don't have enough experience with snap packages to give solid experienced opinion but on the surface it seems like self contained packages for users who just want an os they can use, may help Linux gain ground in the os world. I've replaced most of the snap programs with deb program, not sure why yet but figured I would stay true to the old ways till I know more. happy computing and stay clear of as much telemetry as possible. Retired data center center manager 73 Fred Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 23.04 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-08-29 Votes: 7 I remember reading and hearing that Kubuntu has a lot of KDE developers behind (as Kubuntu is a community proyect that uses the Ubuntu base) and it shows! Stable, not too resource hungry, smooth and just works, best Ubuntu flavour and in my opinion is the best way to enjoy KDE along with openSUSE and Fedora KDE (set stable releases instead of upgrades every one or two years) I would argue that to enjoy Kubuntu different from regular Ubuntu you should install the latest and greatest instead of the LTS, as compared to GNOME KDE does have a lot of small important upgrades each release (compared to GNOME 40 series that are small details from an already good experience) Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 22.04 Rating: 6 Date: 2023-08-28 Votes: 0 I started using kubuntu with the 20.04 release on a new machine that I had bought that year. I was turned on by the clean aesthetic and well-organized desktop. There was a little bit of a learning curve as far as customizing the desktop, but KDE is a very nice GUI with a lot of bells and whistles. Software updates are slow, and for some reason the graphical file manager takes forever to delete files. I just go into the terminal to remove anything nowadays. Audio and visual support in the KDE environment is miserable. I have a 9th-gen Intel i7 with NVIDIA graphics and driver support can be a headache. Since upgrading to 22.04, the icon and system font sizes change arbitrarily (really small when I'm just running my laptop screen, so large as to be unusable when I have an external monitor plugged in) and I haven't really found a way to fix this. No support for the hardware screen brightness function. ALSA doesn't really work well in the KDE environment and I have a lot of headaches using a USB audio interface with it. All in all, I think I'm going back to Ubuntu Studio as a daily driver. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 96 reader reviews of Kubuntu...