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Reader supplied reviews for Ubuntu Kylin
Average rating
3.7 from 6 review(s)
Version: 24.04
Rating: 8
Date: 2026-05-12
Country: Australia
Votes: 0
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Kylin with its UKUI interface is very polished, and everything worked out of the box. I’m giving it 8/10 since English and Chinese are the only two localisations supported. I cannot seem to change the date formats, etc., to Australian format.
My specs: Ryzen 7 3700U with 16 GB RAM.
I also tried the 26.04 version in a live environment, but it seemed extremely buggy, no boot splash during boot, and the window pane had two sets of close, minimise, and maximise buttons.
Once version 26.04 is stable and more localisations are supported, it will perhaps be a 10/10.
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Version: 26.04
Rating: 3
Date: 2026-04-25
Country: Bulgaria
Votes: 0
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The interface of Ubuntu Kylin 26.04 is fantastic I really like the UKUI desktop environment. However, the system feels slow and sluggish, even though my computer has an 11th‑gen Intel processor and 20GB of RAM. The fans also run at full speed most of the time, which makes the system feel poorly optimized.
In addition, the new release is extremely buggy at the moment. Startup errors are common, and many applications fail to install through the official software store, often returning error messages.
I really hope the development team addresses these issues soon, because the system has great potential but currently feels unstable and unfinished.
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Version: 22.04
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-10-17
Votes: 20
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Easily the worst distro I have ever had the displeasure of using. The interface is just broken. The start menu stopped working every time I pinned an application, requiring a relogin. None of the basic apps were present, and the repositories are seemingly empty. First of all, I wanted to run neofetch, and it wasn't installed or in the repositories. Then I tried downloading and running a deb file, and turns out GDebi is not installed and not in the repositories. I tried adding some extra repositories, and it gave me errors. Couldn't install flatpak either.
Finally I decide to download another distro, for which I need a torrent client. I open their software center, and can't find anything there (tried several applications and no results, almost like the search is broken), but surprisingly it tells me I already have Transmission pre-installed. I look in my menu, and it's not there, but sure enough it does run through the terminal. And there were a bunch of apps like that, installed but not appearing in the menu. This is the first time I'm seeing something of this sort.
So anyway, I download another distro, try to run BalenaEtcher as an AppImage, and it doesn't work either (no AppImage support!). I think it required libfuse, which again it didn't have in the repositories. There was no Synaptic or Muon there either to look at packages, and I couldn't install them through either the store or the command line. Couldn't install BalenaEtcher through deb or command line either. It's like a very bare-bones minimal distro with empty repositories for some reason.
I was genuinely stuck. It's a good thing I had another distro (the one I just left) on a flash drive. So, the only way out of this mess was to install that distro just to then switch to another one.
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Version: 22.04
Rating: 2
Date: 2023-08-28
Votes: 4
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Intel® Celeron(R) CPU N2940 @ 1.83GHz × 4, 8GB RAM, Intel® HD Graphics (BYT), 240.1 SSD. Today I told myself that I will not pay anything for the test and I will look at this distribution to see if it suits me. The installation ISO is quite large for the Ubuntu flavor (6.3 GB), but there was nothing stopping me from USB booting it and starting a live session. The first impression was quite surprising, the nice Kylin icon also suited the design of my laptop. After booting, it threw me a choice to clean install or try it out. THIS DISTRO CANNOT BE STARTED! After clicking try, only the welcome melody sounds and the screen remains black. If the system has a problem only with the test, what does it actually install on the disk? It looks nice, but like Deepin, it's practically useless.
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Version: 22.04
Rating: 6
Date: 2022-04-24
Votes: 70
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Lacks on fx 8350 16 gb ram system too slow for any thing not possible to use. even do not update system
after install but perfect on usb live. why so problematic after install to clean system.. do not connect to smb fıle server, not able to use apt managers. sucks on keyboard types, auto sense not working, setup time is not satisfied gives restriction errors on startup but no log input is seen in the log file, worse then older vers. no helpful desktop shames and the setting menu lacks deep settings like color profiles or fine tunes.
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Version: 20.10
Rating: 2
Date: 2021-01-23
Votes: 50
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I live in China and I work in China, so I want a Chinese based distro but this is terrible at the beginning of the installation!
1. I have wifi connection but it just didn't connect to my network for some reason.
2. When the installation was done, I thought that'd be easy to update but I was wrong, even the wired connection failed. I couldn't access to the internet at all!
3. Nvidia driver update also failed due to the network failure...
4. I changed my default input to English but it just kept my default input as Chinese... why?
anyway, I gave up. 2 points for the beauty of the desktop and wallpapers.
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Latest Reviews
Project: Ubuntu Kylin
Version: 24.04
Rating: 8
Date: 2026-05-12
Votes: 0
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Kylin with its UKUI interface is very polished, and everything worked out of the box. I’m giving it 8/10 since English and Chinese are the only two localisations supported. I cannot seem to change the date formats, etc., to Australian format.
My specs: Ryzen 7 3700U with 16 GB RAM.
I also tried the 26.04 version in a live environment, but it seemed extremely buggy, no boot splash during boot, and the window pane had two sets of close, minimise, and maximise buttons.
Once version 26.04 is stable and more localisations are supported, it will perhaps be a 10/10.
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Project: Ubuntu Kylin
Version: 26.04
Rating: 3
Date: 2026-04-25
Votes: 0
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The interface of Ubuntu Kylin 26.04 is fantastic I really like the UKUI desktop environment. However, the system feels slow and sluggish, even though my computer has an 11th‑gen Intel processor and 20GB of RAM. The fans also run at full speed most of the time, which makes the system feel poorly optimized.
In addition, the new release is extremely buggy at the moment. Startup errors are common, and many applications fail to install through the official software store, often returning error messages.
I really hope the development team addresses these issues soon, because the system has great potential but currently feels unstable and unfinished.
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Project: Ubuntu Kylin
Version: 22.04
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-10-17
Votes: 20
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Easily the worst distro I have ever had the displeasure of using. The interface is just broken. The start menu stopped working every time I pinned an application, requiring a relogin. None of the basic apps were present, and the repositories are seemingly empty. First of all, I wanted to run neofetch, and it wasn't installed or in the repositories. Then I tried downloading and running a deb file, and turns out GDebi is not installed and not in the repositories. I tried adding some extra repositories, and it gave me errors. Couldn't install flatpak either.
Finally I decide to download another distro, for which I need a torrent client. I open their software center, and can't find anything there (tried several applications and no results, almost like the search is broken), but surprisingly it tells me I already have Transmission pre-installed. I look in my menu, and it's not there, but sure enough it does run through the terminal. And there were a bunch of apps like that, installed but not appearing in the menu. This is the first time I'm seeing something of this sort.
So anyway, I download another distro, try to run BalenaEtcher as an AppImage, and it doesn't work either (no AppImage support!). I think it required libfuse, which again it didn't have in the repositories. There was no Synaptic or Muon there either to look at packages, and I couldn't install them through either the store or the command line. Couldn't install BalenaEtcher through deb or command line either. It's like a very bare-bones minimal distro with empty repositories for some reason.
I was genuinely stuck. It's a good thing I had another distro (the one I just left) on a flash drive. So, the only way out of this mess was to install that distro just to then switch to another one.
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Project: Ubuntu Kylin
Version: 22.04
Rating: 2
Date: 2023-08-28
Votes: 4
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Intel® Celeron(R) CPU N2940 @ 1.83GHz × 4, 8GB RAM, Intel® HD Graphics (BYT), 240.1 SSD. Today I told myself that I will not pay anything for the test and I will look at this distribution to see if it suits me. The installation ISO is quite large for the Ubuntu flavor (6.3 GB), but there was nothing stopping me from USB booting it and starting a live session. The first impression was quite surprising, the nice Kylin icon also suited the design of my laptop. After booting, it threw me a choice to clean install or try it out. THIS DISTRO CANNOT BE STARTED! After clicking try, only the welcome melody sounds and the screen remains black. If the system has a problem only with the test, what does it actually install on the disk? It looks nice, but like Deepin, it's practically useless.
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Project: Ubuntu Kylin
Version: 22.04
Rating: 6
Date: 2022-04-24
Votes: 70
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Lacks on fx 8350 16 gb ram system too slow for any thing not possible to use. even do not update system
after install but perfect on usb live. why so problematic after install to clean system.. do not connect to smb fıle server, not able to use apt managers. sucks on keyboard types, auto sense not working, setup time is not satisfied gives restriction errors on startup but no log input is seen in the log file, worse then older vers. no helpful desktop shames and the setting menu lacks deep settings like color profiles or fine tunes.
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Project: Ubuntu Kylin
Version: 20.10
Rating: 2
Date: 2021-01-23
Votes: 50
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I live in China and I work in China, so I want a Chinese based distro but this is terrible at the beginning of the installation!
1. I have wifi connection but it just didn't connect to my network for some reason.
2. When the installation was done, I thought that'd be easy to update but I was wrong, even the wired connection failed. I couldn't access to the internet at all!
3. Nvidia driver update also failed due to the network failure...
4. I changed my default input to English but it just kept my default input as Chinese... why?
anyway, I gave up. 2 points for the beauty of the desktop and wallpapers.
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