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Reader supplied reviews for Ubuntu Average rating 7.5 from 451 review(s) Please selecting a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least one sentence about the distribution while limiting your review to 2040 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: -- snapshot19.0418.1018.0417.1017.0416.1016.0415.1015.0414.1014.0413.1013.0412.1012.0411.1011.0410.1010.049.109.048.108.047.107.046.106.065.105.044.10 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Comments (maximum 2,040 characters): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 19.04 Rating: 9 Date: 2019-09-15 Votes: 0 Ubuntu has the slickest presentation of any Linux distribution. The theming is better than stock Gnome (better contrast, and Ubuntu is an outstanding font), the unique applications panel is simple and to the point and little things are taken care of such as, if the boot SSD is encrypted, the password prompt is in a proper graphical screen rather than forming a line of text in a sea of other text. The distribution itself has the excellent "minimal installation", where only Firefox and the basic GNOME applications are installed and you can build up the application suite yourself. Other distributions should take note. In everyday use I have come across no issues. It all just works and, because of Canonical's commercial orientation, security updates and minor fixes are clearly a priority and sometimes show up more than once a day. Updating from 18.10 from 19.04 was a question of being prompted, accepting the prompt, then waiting for about 1,300 DEB files to download and install. The end result was perfect which, in my experience, is almost unheard of - I have usually reinstalled in this situation. I assume that 19.04 to 19.10 will be similar. Some people get in a tizzy about snaps. Canonical silently replaces a few of the minor GNOME components over time with them (one is already a 3.34 version), and should probably have been explicit about this. They are slower to start - the first time - but problems, most notably snapped applications not taking the dark theme when it is the default, have been ironed out over the past few months. Self-contained, sandboxed applications with defined methods of interacting with the operating systems, rather than the free-for-all of PPAs, are clearly a good idea, even if the implementation was at first shaky. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 19.04 Rating: 10 Date: 2019-09-15 Votes: 1 Ubuntu is my new experience for my Desktop and Laptop,minimal installation. Work just great I remove snap and install Flatpak OS: Ubuntu 19.04 x86_64 Kernel: 5.0.0-28-generic Uptime: 11 hours, 3 mins Packages: 1987 (dpkg), 49 (flatpak) Shell: bash 5.0.3 Resolution: 1920x1080 DE: GNOME 3.32.2 WM: GNOME Shell WM Theme: Adwaita Theme: Yaru-dark [GTK2/3] Icons: Yaru [GTK2/3] Terminal: gnome-terminal CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X (16) @ 4.000GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Memory: 2470MiB / 16025MiB Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 18.04 Rating: 10 Date: 2019-09-09 Votes: 2 My 5 years old laptop has nvidia optimus and because of that its really boring using bumblebee. I don't know I just hate typing optirun or primusrun to terminal to get my nvidia GPU to run. Best way to get optimus to run properly with performance is to use prime-select. And in ubuntu 18.04 LTS you don't have to type anything to terminal to do this. This is why I love Ubuntu this much and I'm using it for this reason. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 451 reader reviews of Ubuntu...