Ubuntu is a great distro. It's performant, ,its stable, its well configured it looks nice out of the box. For seasoned Linux users they can be more picky with which their distro but as an intro to Linux I always recommend mint and Ubuntu.
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I'm about to try Ubuntu again.
I switched to Fedora for a few months, and really prefer it over Ubuntu . Clean Gnome. dnf is great. Useful COPRs. It just makes sense. But in my Sisyphian attempts to switch to Linux as my platform for music production (with my existing paid vsts and sound libraries), I hit one brick wall too many. Things that worked no longer work. Things that I could never get to work remain unworking.
So, going to try Ubuntu. I dislike snaps. I dislike the twisted Gnome UI. I will say the Ubuntu fonts are nice though (I actually imported them into Fedora..)
The further I stray from a default install, the harder it is to maintain going forward. Fingers crossed for Ubuntu.
Kubuntu chose to not ship Plasma 6 because it didnt match their release point. While in general a good decision, stable releases are the flaw really.
So a semi-rolling Kubuntu yes, but LTS Kubuntu before Plasma 6? Wouldnt recommend.
Ubuntu is also still full in on Snaps. ~~Flatpak comes from a PPA~~ I think. Their store is snaps-first.
While this is not a bad concept, Flatpaks are better for many reasons. They also may be worse for some others, mainly because Snaps just use Apparmor for sandboxing, like the rest of the system, so you can make easy exceptions.
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After like 20 years of ubuntu, I got so sick of their bulllshit that I switched to Debian a few months ago. It's endlessly better.
I still have ubuntu on a raspberry pi(hole). Whenever I login to update, I get this message about "premium updates" or whatever they call it. It makes me want to barf but I haven't motivated to switch the pi yet.