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Reader supplied reviews for Ubuntu Average rating 7.8 from 402 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: -- snapshot26.0425.1025.0424.1024.0423.1023.0422.1022.0421.1021.0420.1020.0419.1019.0418.1018.0417.1017.0416.1016.0415.1015.0414.1014.0413.1013.0412.1012.0411.1011.0410.1010.049.109.048.108.047.107.046.106.065.105.044.10 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: 26.04 Rating: 8 Date: 2026-08-16 Country: Italy Votes: 2 I have tested ubuntu 26.04 in a virtual machine. I use professionally Ubuntu 24.04 in some laptops and workstations and my goal was to see if version 26.04 can be safely used in the future. My test is to see if "innovations" introduced by Ubuntu that have been highly criticized, are reversible and can be easily modified. 1) First of all I have completely eliminated snapd from the system. After I installed firefox-esr from mozilla ppa. I am not interested to other packages that was preinstalled in snap. I put snapd in blacklist in /etc/apt/preferences.d 2) I have installed gnome-tweaks and gnome-shell-extensions. The most important extensions are for me the "gnome-menu" (Apps Menu) and and "user themes". As you know, the nice "Ubuntu dock" is already installed by default. 3) As well indicated in the web, it is easy to restore the good gnu "sudo" by using "update-alternatives" 4) I have restored the "coreutils" from gnu with a simple command : sudo apt remove coreutils-from-uutils --allow-remove-essential and put the rust coreutils in blacklist. 5) I have installed compilers g++, gcc, make, etc with single install commands, avoiding to use build-essential that has a dependence on rust coreutils. My opinion is that Ubuntu 26.04 can be easily "tamed" and criticisms are a little exaggerated. As a professional user I was anyway troubled by the fact that some aspects of the "core gnu linux" were modified by Ubuntu for the first time. To my opinion there was no logic reason to eliminate the possibility to use X11 in login. I use Wayland but often I have some problem with it and in some machines i switched to X11 (this is no more possible with 26.04) Anyway Ubuntu 26.04 is running fine and seems a good distribution, also if i shall remain with version 24.04 in real machines for a relatively long time. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 26.04 Rating: 8 Date: 2026-08-09 Country: Brazil Votes: 1 Uso o Ubuntu como meu SO secundário e o Mint como principal. Tentei usar outras distros como SO secundário, como o Fedora, o Big Linux e o Kubuntu, mas acabo voltando para o Ubuntu Gnome. É um sistema sólido, confiável, quanto ao Snaps você não é obrigado a usa´-los, pode habilitar os Flatpaks e usar a Gnome software, mas os Snaps não ficaram lentos no meu Hardware, enfim o Ubuntu continua a ser um ótimo SO, tanto para iniciantes, pela facilidade de uso e de configuração, bem como para usários mais avançados, uso e recomendo. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 26.04 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-07-28 Country: United States Votes: 14 I've been using Linux since around 97 and cut my teeth on redhat & debian and since then have tried them all. If you want to really learn Linux try Gentoo follow the docs and in a day or so you should have a working system, dig in, learn it. From there you can go anywhere your newfound skills take you, NixOS is fun too along with some of the immutable flavors. I'm retired IT approaching 70 now and I'm done with all the fiddling and configuring needed to keep things running on some of them. With Ubuntu I'm up and running in no time and with unattended updates running the show it is pretty much set and forget which is what I want at this point in my life. It is enterprise grade, solid as a rock, trouble free and easy to set up out of the box. I know people make a big fuss about snaps but you are under no obligation to use them. Hats off and many thanks to the folks at Cannonical for such a solid OS! Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 402 reader reviews of Ubuntu...