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Reader supplied reviews for Ubuntu Average rating 7.8 from 207 review(s) What are your thoughts on Ubuntu? 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: -- snapshot23.0422.1022.0421.1021.0420.1020.0419.1019.0418.1018.0417.1017.0416.1016.0415.1015.0414.1014.0413.1013.0412.1012.0411.1011.0410.1010.049.109.048.108.047.107.046.106.065.105.044.10 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: 23.04 Rating: 8 Date: 2023-05-07 Votes: 33 Currently, Ubuntu is an underrated distro in the Linux world. Yes, they made a lot of questionable decisions (or mistakes, depends on how you want to look at it). From Unity, Snaps, Mir, and more. But since 22.04 i've been noticing a constant increase in performance and a great out of the box user experience. Snaps and the changes behind the scenes in Gnome aren't the best ways of accomplishing those goals, but in practice they give a good experience. Canonical is investing in making their desktop better, look at the blog posts they release regarding improvements to Firefox and Steam's snaps. They are also receiving feedback to improve them, and they do some clever things with Snaps that are a great for new users (things like update pop-ups, automatic theme downloads) are annoying to more advanced users, but they help new users. Ubuntu gives a much better Gnome implementation than many, with accent colors, helpful extensions, sensible defaults (tap to click enabled for example) and in occasion they don't fear in holding back packages to avoid problems. Ubuntu 22.04 held back anything with libadwaita/gtk4, that give a lot of problems (in my case, making 22.10 unusable). 23.04 is a great release, it isn't the greatest in terms of features, but it more than compensates the user with a stable, problem free (can depend on your hardware) experience. The new installer is a lot nicer to use, especially in disk partitioning world (i remember the first time i used Ubiquity, the disk partitioning was confusing). Overall, 23.04, for not being the focus of Ubuntu (LTS rule), is a very reliable release that is unlikely to disappoint. You also get all the codecs with a button on install, and Ubuntu is smart enough to figure out drivers (or give the user a friendly way to install them) This sounds like we are in 2014 or something, but bad decision-making mainly from Fedora and OpenSUSE brought back all the hardware/driver/codec issues from the past. Requiring complicated setup for most users. Ubuntu kept the drivers! Even Debian is changing their old rules to allow proprietary drivers on installation. And if you dislike Snaps, just don't use them (or find a distro that suits you better)! Im not a fan, but i like having a backup option for flatpaks, its already saved me when Dolphin's flatpak stopped recognizing my controller. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 22.10 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-05-05 Votes: 1 Ubuntu is still one of the best in the Linux world. It is stable, it is the base of most of the other distributions. In general, the major distributions are really works of excellent computer engineering. A great job that in the not too distant future, will make most understand that Windows is not that important. The lInux world still has a long way to go in program compatibility between Windows and Linux, and as this progress allows for the possibility of maximum compatibility, the monopoly power of Windows will begin to be lost. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 22.04 Rating: 3 Date: 2023-04-29 Votes: 0 Works, but it seems each update is more annoying to use. Little things like making it difficult to select a uniform color background. Desktop also seems very slow though VNC relative to 18.04. The way I need to use it, VNC is required since I need to attach to the same session from multiple computers. Its visually nice, but I need it as a tool, not a toy Now that I have it installed and working, I'm not going to configure a different distro, but I'll use something else in the future. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 207 reader reviews of Ubuntu...