Really Pleased with Kubuntu 20.04 LTS

[jberkpc]

I've been using the LTS versions of Kubuntu since 12.04 and I think this is the best release yet.
I love the fact that it also has KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS. I use one rolling release distro with 5.19x and it might be nice when they get it straightened out, but I want something that, just works.
I had been putting off switching from Legacy to EFI for about 5 motherboards now because of the work of backing up all my stuff and converting 2 drives to GPT.
I also added a NVMe as my boot drive. It was a lot of work but I was amazed at at how easy an EFI install was with the installer.
The only difficulty I had is that that Kubuntu live USB would freeze because of my 2080 RTX. I knew it there was a safe boot option but Kubuntu would jsut boot and freeze. Then my son reminded me to tap the ESC key so I could see safe boot as an option in grub.
After that I was up and running in no time.
I'm a total LTS fan and usually I don't even look at the at the interim releases.
Great work and now I don't have to do another install until the next Kubuntu LTS release come out. (I never go the the upgrade route, I see too many many problems that those who go upgrade route have.)
Kudos!

[jglen490]

Yay! Another LTS only fan.

Glad you are seeing good things with 20.04 LTS. I've been LTS only for quite a while myself. Some time ago, I decided to get serious about backups. So I bought a couple of 2.5" SATA drives and some USB enclosures. That made clean install life very certain and easy. Also, when I went to UEFI with GPT drives, I just made a data backup, stuck in two new SSDs (one for / and SWAP, the other for /home) and there it was. A couple data directory adjustments and all was well for the next couple of LTS clean installs.

My backup drives are about 2x the size of /home to allow for "expansion", since that's all that ever gets backed up. It's a personal machine, not a server or Enterprise thing, so that's all that is important to me. Reinstall of the OS is rare, easy, and fast; and typically no impact on /home.