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Personally, I hate Ubuntu. Why? There are many reasons, and I will list a few and then explain, why I want to recommend KaOS. (I use KaOS on my laptop, which I use for multimedia and web-dev (I take it with me to customers for face2face optimizations and discussions))

First of all, I think Ubuntu is way over-hyped and Canonical is deviating from the rest of the Linux community by the day. It's more Windows-y than Linux-y if you ask me. Want a Linux? Then imho Ubuntu is not the right choice.

When thinking about what I want to see in a good OS, then it should (in no particular order):

• be a rolling release. No one wants to upgrade the system. It's inconvenient and introduces risks.
• be standard compliant; for example use Wayland.
• give me the choices from the first moment to decide how I want the system to be and feel and look.
• be modern and up2date (but still stable!)
• help me get stuff done and stay out of the way
• adapt to the knowledge of the user
• offer native packages (who wants to use software which was optimized for someone else?)

As far as I am concerned, Ubuntu fails hard on nearly all of them.

For new Linux users (I suspect you are one, otherwise you'd probably already have your favorite distro), who want a sane, modern system which fits nearly all of the above bullet points, I recommend KaOS. It is quite young (stable since 2013), however delivers a wonderful full-KDE experience I have yet to see in any other distro. KaOS is fairly beginner friendly, as it is very clean and offers a simple GUI solution for nearly all day-to-day actions (though some tools are better used from the terminal ;) ). For example, it keeps its package repo lean and composes everything to fit together especially well for this one distro. As for web-dev, KaOS makes it easy to install packages via Octopi, so all you have to do is tick a web server, a database, and anything else you might need and let the package manager do its job~ All packages are very up2date (usually a version compiled in the past 30 days), so you won't miss out on any new features!

(compare the same search keywords to Ubuntu's official package repo... which is hard to navigate due to all those OS nicknames and namespaces and only contains outdated software -.-")