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Reader supplied reviews for Ubuntu Average rating 7.7 from 323 review(s) Please select 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 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: -- snapshot24.1024.0423.1023.0422.1022.0421.1021.0420.1020.0419.1019.0418.1018.0417.1017.0416.1016.0415.1015.0414.1014.0413.1013.0412.1012.0411.1011.0410.1010.049.109.048.108.047.107.046.106.065.105.044.10 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: 24.10 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-03-25 Votes: 4 I keep coming back to Ubuntu. Why? Everything works, everything works when managed by it, and everything continues to work. I am not particularly demanding with hardware, but phone (Bluetooth and USB connections), e-reader (USB), headphones (BT), speakers (BT) and chessboard (BT) all work. It is remarkable how often distributions fail, even with the "easy" USB connections. Windows 11 is less reliable than Ubuntu here, as its Bluetooth implementation has occasional fits without warning and it often tries to be too clever with USB. Just connect and show me the whole device file system! The other huge advantage of Ubuntu is that it is primarily a corporate distribution, so Canonical has a vested interest in getting it right and keeping it secure with a continuous stream of updates. A lot of hot air is emitted about snaps; in the corporate world, secure installation of the right software from verified sources is a big thing and, in day-to-day use, downloading an installer then running it vanished, in my experience, about 20 years ago. It was no surprise that, as a vendor whose operating system is involved in all sorts of critical tasks, Canonical decided to get a grip of software distribution. (For the record, I have the great whales - Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice and Vivaldi - as snaps and almost everything else as flatpaks. Although flatpaks are far from perfect, Canonical really needs to tackle the annoying issue that a lot of snaps are well behind the current version of the software they package). I give a rare 10 because you don't know how good Ubuntu is until you realise how many inconsistencies and even errors there are in other distributions. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 24.04 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-03-13 Votes: 37 Ubuntu LTS is great. Until now I was using another great distro - Fedora. But I encountered problems with installing Nvidia and working with Virtualbox, which I need to play chess program in the old Windows7 environment. That application doesn't have Linux version. I tried other distros and neither satisfied me with both needed Nvidia and Virtualbox. Except Ubuntu. It works jest as expected without any flaws. Other things which I noticed during distro hopping : Ubuntu boots much faster. If installed with default option it's just clean - no stupid unneeded apps other distros are bloated with. You can easily install them yourself if you wish. As for me I don't remove snap functionality, I simply ignore it. Just install flatpak and use it : sudo apt install flatpak. All in all: 10 out of 10! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 24.10 Rating: 1 Date: 2025-03-12 Votes: 0 I have been using ubuntu for a few years now. I like but it has gone south. Almost every upgrade renders my system non-bootable. Requiring rescue with a live CD. This is the third time in the last year. Ubuntu is to be avoided because of wayland. It left me with a kernel panic not syncing vfs unable to mount. Ubuntu seems to blame Ubuntu, but the maintainers are ultimately responsible for the updates. I am done with Ubuntu. Debian will cruise along for years without any issues. Bye-Bye ubuntu write if you get work... Snapd, Flatpak, Wayland... What else? Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 323 reader reviews of Ubuntu...