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Reader supplied reviews for Ubuntu Average rating 7.7 from 328 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: -- snapshot25.0424.1024.0423.1023.0422.1022.0421.1021.0420.1020.0419.1019.0418.1018.0417.1017.0416.1016.0415.1015.0414.1014.0413.1013.0412.1012.0411.1011.0410.1010.049.109.048.108.047.107.046.106.065.105.044.10 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: 22.04 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-04-17 Votes: 0 Ubuntu is one of the best distros available. Especially for using it as a server... certainly the most documented one and used all over the place... a lot of tutorials and blogs which describe how to achieve certain things. There are other distros as well, but if you get into trouble that is a big problem, it's hard to find solutions or to fix problems... you need to be an expert... especially if using Arch linux for example. I'm using Ubuntu since 2015 and never had any second thoughts about it. I recommend it always to anyone who wants to try linux. Pros: Great for personal use and software developers Cons: Not for gaming or some heavy multimedia Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 24.04 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-04-07 Votes: 0 Ubuntu 24.04 is a fantastic release—easily one of the best I’ve used in years. It feels polished, modern, and finally brings together everything that makes a Linux desktop truly enjoyable. I’ve been using Linux on and off since the mid-2000s, and this release genuinely feels like a return to form. My Linux journey began with Ubuntu 6.04, back when the orange and brown interface had its own quirky charm and the system felt light and responsive. I stuck with Ubuntu for years until the transition to Unity. While I respect the ambition behind Unity, it just didn’t click with me. It felt like too much of a departure from the classic desktop metaphor, and it introduced friction into my daily workflow. That’s when I made the switch to elementary OS—version 4, I believe. At the time, it was clean, beautiful, and minimal. It gave me the stable base of Ubuntu with a design language I loved. elementary OS served me well for several years, but over time, I began to feel like development stalled or at least diverged from the direction I wanted. The most recent release, elementary OS 8, was a real letdown. It felt buggy and incomplete, and many of the features I relied on either didn’t work properly or were missing altogether. There were UI inconsistencies, hardware issues, and an overall sense that the polish just wasn’t there anymore. That disappointment led me to try Ubuntu again—and wow, what a difference. Ubuntu 24.04 is clean, fast, and refreshingly easy to use. GNOME has matured dramatically over the years, and I think it’s finally at a point where it feels intuitive, elegant, and powerful. The shell no longer feels like it’s fighting against me—it’s a joy to use. Features like dynamic workspaces, the overview screen, and the built-in search are genuinely useful and feel like they’ve been refined through years of iteration. It’s impressive how well the desktop adapts to different workflows, whether you’re a keyboard-heavy power user or prefer point-and-click simplicity. I was also pleasantly surprised by how seamless everything works out of the box. No driver issues, no weird display scaling quirks, no broken package dependencies—just a solid, reliable system. Snap, which I was previously skeptical of, now feels well-integrated. The App Center is responsive, attractive, and finally useful—not just for Snap packages, but for .deb files as well. I love the flexibility this offers, letting me install software from various sources without hunting around online or worrying about compatibility. Overall, Ubuntu 24.04 feels like a culmination of years of improvement, and it's clear a lot of care went into this release. It's accessible to newcomers yet powerful enough for veterans. After experimenting with countless distros over the years, I’m genuinely excited to be back on Ubuntu. It’s stable, modern, and respectful of the user’s time. I think Canonical absolutely nailed it with this release. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 24.10 Rating: 8 Date: 2025-03-28 Votes: 5 Ubuntu works really well and it shows that they did a lot of work to make Ubuntu more gaming friendly there is still work to be done that's why i gave it 8 but they are on the right track.Don't listen to all those snap haters you don't have to use snaps if you don't want to my setup is strictly .deb and flatpak no snaps and it works great. Pros: very polished fast and stable recent kernel and drivers easy to set up good for beginners and advance user's Cons: some gaming packages like mangohud and lutris and protontricks are outdated but i fixed this issue pretty easily mangohud=github lutris=.deb protontricks=flatpak Good job Ubuntu team keep up the good work. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 328 reader reviews of Ubuntu...