A quick look at Kubuntu 24.04 Beta

taking a quick tour of kubuntu 24.04. kubuntu is great if you don't require the last and greatest of packages.

[@originaldanman]

Running Kubuntu plasma, on several computers, 1 for a few years without a problem, and for me it is the most stable Linux distro I've tried, and that's what matters to me. I finally got Debian to install on a system, that is touted to be so great and stable, and it lasted about 4 hours before it totally bombed just while changing back grounds. Went back to Kubuntu and I don't' think I'll look elsewhere. It may not be the prettiest environment for some, but it's easy to install and it just works.

[@LowTechLinux]

I love kubuntu. I need certain packages to be newer so I run Tumbleweed. I ran kubuntu for about 14 years and never really had an issue with it. It's also what I have on my 82 yr old mother's computer and she likes that it never has an issue. I do the updates and such for her though.

[@oscs4556]

Haruna is basically plasma front end to mpv. Fcitx5 is useful for inputting non Latin language characters such as Asian languages like Japanese, Korean etc - multilingual people have to use it (available as a flatpak too). Personally, I use strawberry as a music player over Elisa. I prefer to have a swap partition instead of swap to file (Microsoft Windows uses a swap file). If you want Ubuntu and plasma 6 without snaps, use the upcoming tuxedo os.

[@donkekonge]

Haruna Media Player is great! I actually primarily use it because of the ability to turn on a sleek KZbin-like thumbnail preview when you hover over the timeline. On Windows, I use Media Player Classic Black Edition just because of this timeline preview, but Haruna has an even more slick implementation! Highly recommend!

[@user-pd1vg7pd6b]

Nice installer yes. And I am a big fun of KDE. But they did not replace the slideshow screenshots during installation, as they're mostly still referring to Lubuntu . I assume that's the icon at the beginning that reminded you of something.

[@LowTechLinux]

Good eye, I'd say you're right

[@riccardofrattali1607]

i just installed kubuntu but no wifi driver. where to get the driver and how to fix is.

[@LowTechLinux]

Unfortunately you need Internet access to fix your internet access lol. Connect by wire or a working wireless dongle and go to System settings > driver manager. That should show you any additional drivers you might need

[@adrianmares269]

In the installer you have to tick a box or two to have stuff that is proprietary

[@klubuntu]

Watched by Klubuntu

[@StellarHarbour]

They couldn't even handle adding KDE 6

[@LowTechLinux]

It is the LTS which almost never takes any chances on changes. 24.10 will have KDE 6

[@StellarHarbour]

@@LowTechLinux I better off with Fedora 40 KDE tomorrow release then

[@LowTechLinux]

Sure. Or Opensuse Tumbleweed KDE which has had 6 for several weeks now.

[@plutorocks1]

No the Kubuntu developers will add backports for plasma 6 with time. Bear with them

[@LowTechLinux]

Possibly. Not sure with it being LTS but I think they will once the dust settles down.

X11 👎