After 9 Months on Mint I switched to Kubuntu and I'm loving it!! (piefed.social)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev

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In February I switched to Mint after frustrations with Windows, Mint was nice but it always felt very rough around the edges from a UI perspective. I felt it was missing many bells and whistles.

I was looking to try a good KDE Linux and went for the latest Kubuntu and I love it.
The look and feel is so clean.

It's not without issues, I had to fight driver issues for a good while and my laptop speakers still don't work but my headset and speakers etc. immediately worked.

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[-] exupulosion@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 weeks ago

You could've just installed KDE on top of mint? Ain't that the freedom of linux?

[-] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 15 points 3 weeks ago

I've heard this is quite a mess to maintain.

Ideally I want to find the best out of the box solution so that I can switch friends and family over to when I feel they and the software are ready

[-] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 10 points 3 weeks ago

Woah, woah, woah... Are you trying to dissuade distro hopping?

[-] compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 weeks ago

Yep, Mint with KDE is how I roll

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yup. I use KDE on Debian. Works great.

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