I’ve seen people suggest Ubuntu without mentioning Kubuntu, but it seems like most people (especially gamers?) prefer KDE Plasma. I’ve seen people complain about Ubuntu’s GUI and lack of customization, but then no one suggests them to try Kubuntu instead. It seems like people just don’t know that Kubuntu exists.

Also as an aside, people often criticize how slow updates are on Ubuntu/Kubuntu/etc, but if you enable the backports ppa then it’s actually pretty quick!

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
  • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I assume when people say something like Ubuntu or Fedora then they mean the core of the distro. DE is irrelevant since it’s trivial to change.

    • imecth@fedia.io
      2·
      2 days ago

      Ubuntu’s GNOME is quite different from the vanilla GNOME you’ll find in fedora.

    • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comOPEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      but new users might not know this, especially since it’s under a different name, they might not even think to look and just dismiss it because they don’t like how the screenshots (of GNOME) look