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
Because there’s Mint when you don’t want to talk about Ubuntu.
How up to date is Mint compared to Kubuntu? I feel like I’ve seen complaints about issues with gaming on Mint’s old kernel, but Kubuntu 25.10 seems to have a pretty recent kernel
I have backports enabled so my kernel is on 6.17.0-8
Mint has its flaws if you’re running an RTX 3080. It’ll play games well but will show a black screen if you run it after waking it back up which requires a reboot to fix.