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Reader supplied reviews for Ubuntu Average rating 7.8 from 405 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: 10 Date: 2026-09-26 Country: Australia Votes: 1 I have been using Ubuntu since No14. I use many other Linux OS Distros as well and have tried even more. She has always been reliable and somehow works for me. Yes I refer to Ubuntu as her, you can google the possible reasons. I recently upgraded from 24.04 on one machine of older status without a glitch and an even older machine with some glitches but with the help of google and Ubuntu Forum for around three hours and terminal inputs and reboots all good. 26.04 I find it impressive without having time to make a coffee when starting up and loading apps. Big plus. So far it all works good. At this late stage in September and from research into its point release I was surprised I did not receive an LTS upgrade notification. I had to force the upgrade. I do like the fact that I can extract files from my old XP OS on this triple boot machine from the 26.04 upgrade. I never got it to work on 24.04. Anyway I have not come across anything at this stage to warrant a lesser score. I am not a power user or a gamer etc etc so you folk will have to judge her on all that but for a home system she is ok. BIAC Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 26.04 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-09-15 Country: France Votes: 5 I have been a devoted fan of Ubuntu since the very first day I installed it. In my experience, it remains the absolute best distribution for every type of user, providing a seamless experience for complete rookies while offering the power and flexibility that experts demand. The 26.04 release is impressively fast, delivering a level of speed and responsiveness that makes the system feel incredibly fluid. Furthermore, I've found that Snap is the ideal way to handle local AI inference; it simplifies the deployment of large language models like Qwen and Gemma, making it easier than ever to run powerful AI directly on my own hardware. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 26.04 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-09-01 Country: Romania Votes: 26 Ah, Ubuntu. It simply just works. It provides a nice customized Gnome desktop with good defaults and its own ecosystem of apps. There isn't much to be said that hasn't been said already, so I want to touch on an aspect that is important to the Ubuntu experience but often dismissed for no good reason by people online. The elephant in the room is the snap packages, which many are vocal about. However, on the server/IoT side they have become quite popular, and on the desktop side they have matured, so much so that you probably won't notice that programs like Firefox are snaps. Programs installed as snaps just update in the background so you don't even have to worry about updates. If an update broke something, you can just roll back that program without losing any data. Furthermore, a plethora of IDEs and professional software are officially available as snaps, straight from the developers, and they all work as they should, all thanks to the fact that developers can have them run with classic confinement, so that means without any sandboxing. The snap ecosystem is pretty good and I think it complements the rest of Ubuntu really well. To me, it's actually a selling point for Ubuntu because as long as you installed packages from verified devs, they'll just work with very little maintenance required. I like that Ubuntu has its own ecosystem, not all distros have to do the same thing, and ultimately it is a good ecosystem to be in. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 405 reader reviews of Ubuntu...