LTS, security, maintenence and some new guys questions

[Kabelbaum]

Hello Kubuntu members!
I am quite new to this and installed Kubuntu some weeks ago. I also followed most of the Tips from here. So I am curious about some things I wanted to ask here because I read different things about this.

General *buntu questions:

Are there things in terms of staying safe to do in general? Besides using the firewall and keeping everything as up-to-date as possible? I read a lot of negative feedback about Snap but snap has a strong sandbox and it is controlled by Canonical so Browser/Mail should be very safe as a Snap. Why do people want to remove Snap in general? Is there a different reason? Should you just not use it or not install further Snaps?

In general my concept would be to install my GUI apps as a Flatpak/Snap and only if necessary as a deb to keep the system neat and benefit from newer software than on the *buntu servers. Good idea or is it better the opposite way?


More KDE related:

I am on 26.04 now and it is the LTS. It will get at least 2-3 years of Updates for security (no feature updates for KDE or other software). Is it in general safe to use it for the time until the EOL or is KDE a problem here because vulnerabilities do not get patched (because it is frozen)?

The usability of Kubuntu (KDE) is very good in my opinion and even for somebody with not so much knowledge it is easy to use for basic stuff.

I would like to use my gdrive to mount it in Dolphin. Is rclone the only way to do it? And is it safe to do so and put it on automount when the system starts? It feels kind of weird or insecure for me. Is there maybe another way to use gdrive or would you recommend a different cloud service which is better integrated in KDE and if so which one?

Whenever I try to download widgets or themes directly through the built-in system settings store, it feels very unstable and frequently runs into errors or fails to load. Is the store generally known for having problems, or is this just an issue on my end?
As a workaround, is it completely safe to download the files manually from store.kde.org and move them into the corresponding folders myself, or can this cause security issues?

Thanks for reading and have a good day!

[claydoh]

I also followed most of the Tips from here.

I will point out that these things are not actually necessary, but that depends on you. I myself do not do many or most of these things, unless I actually experience any issues across my 3 very different systems. And my systems are very often far from stock at the system level. But these are common things people do, for various reasons, and won't hinder or do any harm, even if some may not actually help one one's specific system.

Besides using the firewall and keeping everything as up-to-date as possible?

This is always Step One, anyway. Firewall use of course, depends on if you are behind a router or not tbh. Turning on the UI for the firewall gets in the way in this case.

Why do people want to remove Snap in general?

It is seen as a closed ecosystem, and as bloat, plus it is de riguer to hate on anything *buntu these days. Warranted or not.

(Linux discussion areas tend towards being hatefests when it comes to suggestions and recommendations, as if things they don't like are pure evil. You need to have some filters in place when going to Reddit and other places sometimes, depending on the topic)

(also it is funny that there really are no many third party flathub repos, and those that do exist seem to suck (Fedora!!), and all the flatpak fans tell you to just stick with the One Flathub )

Good idea or is it better the opposite way?

This is 100% perfect for you. So do it
Some may argue that using all three is not neat and tidy

But I install my Flatpaks as --user, which I find very tidy, and in my case recently (multiple recoveries and reinstalls over a couple of weeks due to physical hardware issues) I find having all my flatpaks easily restored when copying my $HOME backups/snapshot or having a separate $HOME partition. It reduces the heck out of the things I need to actually install after a clean install. So it suits me. I still tend towards native debs, particularly KDE things unless there is a specific reason. But being on an LTS, any useful and well-used application can be current while riding on that stable OS setup I have.

I would say that Snaps are less common, may have lower usage numbers, but do offer things that Flatpaks cannot do very well, like servery things. Jellyfin and the like. So my preference leads to Flatpak + debs usually, in terms of tidiness.

Is it in general safe to use it for the time until the EOL

Generally yes. Security updates are dependent on KDE fixing anything found, and/or the ability to backport a patch to older versions. There is no LTS version of Plasma, so that does put security support as an important factor, for sure. There has not been an issue that I am aware of, ever in Kubuntu that has happened after KDE stopped support for a version, but I may be wrong on that.

I would like to use my gdrive to mount it in Dolphin. Is rclone the only way to do it? And is it safe to do so

The reason is that Google puts restrictions on Gdrive access and removed KDE's permission. Simply no one has volunteered to go through all the hoops needed, and then continue to do so.

Using rclones' public keys for gdrive access severely limits the speed and iirc amount of data that can be used as a whole from everyone, so it can and will be slooowww.
Setting up your own personal keys will allow better access, and is well documented.
But yes, this is currently the only seemingly solid way to have drive access in Dolphin.
There is
https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse
https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse/wiki

But I am not sure how well this works today. It is seldom mentioned, but has been around for ages.
Setup/mounting is similar, iirc.

(I use rclone for years, and set up my own auth keys ages ago for use on my NAS, but I use rclone to sync on the command line, and just use the browser interface as needed. I haven't physically mounted my gdrive in a couple of years, mostly because my bad, metered rural internet was my phone until recently. )

Whenever I try to download widgets or themes directly through the built-in system settings store, it feels very unstable and frequently runs into errors or fails to load. Is the store generally known for having problems,

Yes, very much so. The third-party website is shall we say janky.

You most definitely can manually download files, and use the "Install from File" option. You don't need to figure out where all the file go if you don't want to.

Do note that Global Themes do not actually contain any themeing files, they are just lists of things to be installed, so any manual install for these will not pull in any of those components.
Manually downloading theme components should be safe here, as they do not have any sort of executable software, and ones that do you can't install from the store.

You can also try using Discover, though it probably will have the same issues as using the Get New tools.

[Kabelbaum]

Oh wow, thank you very much for this nice reply!

This is 100% perfect for you. So do it
Some may argue that using all three is not neat and tidy

But I install my Flatpaks as --user, which I find very tidy, and in my case recently (multiple recoveries and reinstalls over a couple of weeks due to physical hardware issues) I find having all my flatpaks easily restored when copying my $HOME backups/snapshot or having a separate $HOME partition. It reduces the heck out of the things I need to actually install after a clean install. So it suits me. I still tend towards native debs, particularly KDE things unless there is a specific reason. But being on an LTS, any useful and well-used application can be current while riding on that stable OS setup I have.

I would say that Snaps are less common, may have lower usage numbers, but do offer things that Flatpaks cannot do very well, like servery things. Jellyfin and the like. So my preference leads to Flatpak + debs usually, in terms of tidiness.

This is a great idea! Usually the Flatpaks are installed in "system" when installed with Discover. But do it with --user sounds good for me.

This is always Step One, anyway. Firewall use of course, depends on if you are behind a router or not tbh. Turning on the UI for the firewall gets in the way in this case.

In witch way is the firewall gets in the way? I guess most of the routers have a firewall included.

Oh I think the token stuff with rclone is to complicated for me 😂 Maybe i will look for some alternatives.

Kind of sad with the "theme store". I guess I would not include it in KDE when it is broken like this. But I kind of do not like to download things from the internet and install it on the system because I do not know what is going on 😂 Maybe I will just copy it to /home.

It is seen as a closed ecosystem, and as bloat, plus it is de riguer to hate on anything *buntu these days. Warranted or not.

(Linux discussion areas tend towards being hatefests when it comes to suggestions and recommendations, as if things they don't like are pure evil. You need to have some filters in place when going to Reddit and other places sometimes, depending on the topic)

(also it is funny that there really are no many third party flathub repos, and those that do exist seem to suck (Fedora!!), and all the flatpak fans tell you to just stick with the One Flathub )

Hm OK. But there is a very neat way to install Kubuntu without snap (minimal install) so there is no script needed. I am running it in a virtual machine for testing and it seems to be a very minimal install (or do it come with a downside?).

EDIT: Oh, I see. The minimal install includes kind of nothing.

[Qqmike]

I guess most of the routers have a firewall included.

On that specific note, I usually think of the NAT capability of many routers:
NAT (Network Address Translation): Masks the private IP addresses of your devices from the public internet.

[claydoh]

In witch way is the firewall gets in the way? I guess most of the routers have a firewall included.

Your PC firewall settings competing with the firewall in your router, yes.

Kind of sad with the "theme store". I guess I would not include it in KDE when it is broken like this. But I kind of do not like to download things from the internet and install it on the system because I do not know what is going on 😂 Maybe I will just copy it to /home.

yes, it has slowly been rotting away, I think. The built-in tools and Discover *are* pulling the themes from this same kde store website you would be manually downloading from, fwiw.
But someone needs to fund a better place to keep things, really. $$$$

Hm OK. But there is a very neat way to install Kubuntu without snap (minimal install) so there is no script needed. I am running it in a virtual machine for testing and it seems to be a very minimal install (or do it come with a downside?).

Downside is relative to the user. Minimal has pretty much nothing installed. No non-core software, no browser, etc. So if you know what you want, it is a good starting place. If you don't know or are not sure what you should use, then it may be a bit of extra work one may not want.

[Virginio Miranda]

In witch way is the firewall gets in the way? I guess most of the routers have a firewall included.

.

Justo to clarify;

Sometimes in certain situations, you need to open some ports on your routers, and in this case, you need to setup a firewall ( e.g. UFW on ...buntu )

[Kabelbaum]

Thanks guys!

[Kabelbaum]

Do you guys use Ubuntu Pro on yout Kubuntu LTS setups? I am not sure about it. Seems to be like for Server stuff.

[acheron]

Do you guys use Ubuntu Pro on yout Kubuntu LTS setups? I am not sure about it. Seems to be like for Server stuff.

Yes, you get updates for a fair few desktop relevant packages also.

[Kabelbaum]

Do you guys use Ubuntu Pro on yout Kubuntu LTS setups? I am not sure about it. Seems to be like for Server stuff.

[acheron]

List of ESM packages (via Ubuntu Pro) that I currently had/have Updates for on a Kubuntu 24.04 LTS system

ii 7zip 23.01+dfsg-11ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 7-Zip file archiver with a high compression ratio
ii ffmpeg 7:6.1.1-3ubuntu5+esm10 amd64 Tools for transcoding, streaming and playing of multimedia files
ii fig2dev 1:3.2.9-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 Utilities for converting XFig figure files
ii fonts-katex 0.16.10+~cs6.1.0-2ubuntu0.24.04.1~esm1 all Fast math typesetting for the web (fonts)
ii fonttools 4.46.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 all Converts OpenType and TrueType fonts to and from XML (Executables)
ii freerdp2-x11 2.11.5+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.1~esm6 amd64 RDP client for Windows Terminal Services (X11 client)
ii gh 2.45.0-1ubuntu0.3+esm3 amd64 GitHub CLI, GitHub’s official command line tool
ii gimp 2.10.36-3ubuntu0.24.04.1+esm3 amd64 GNU Image Manipulation Program
ii gimp-data 2.10.36-3ubuntu0.24.04.1+esm3 all Data files for GIMP
ii gnuplot-data 6.0.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu3+esm1 all Command-line driven interactive plotting program. Data-files
ii gnuplot-x11 6.0.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu3+esm1 amd64 Command-line driven interactive plotting program. X-package
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad:amd64 1.24.2-1ubuntu4+esm1 amd64 GStreamer plugins from the "bad" set
ii hugo 0.123.7-1ubuntu0.3+esm2 amd64 Fast and flexible Static Site Generator written in Go
ii imagemagick 8:6.9.12.98+dfsg1-5.2ubuntu0.1~esm10 amd64 image manipulation programs -- binaries
ii imagemagick-6-common 8:6.9.12.98+dfsg1-5.2ubuntu0.1~esm10 all image manipulation programs -- infrastructure
ii imagemagick-6.q16 8:6.9.12.98+dfsg1-5.2ubuntu0.1~esm10 amd64 image manipulation programs -- quantum depth Q16
ii libavcodec60:amd64 7:6.1.1-3ubuntu5+esm10 amd64 FFmpeg library with de/encoders for audio/video codecs - runtime files
ii libavcodec60:i386 7:6.1.1-3ubuntu5+esm10 i386 FFmpeg library with de/encoders for audio/video codecs - runtime files
ii libavdevice60:amd64 7:6.1.1-3ubuntu5+esm10 amd64 FFmpeg library for handling input and output devices - runtime files
ii libavfilter9:amd64 7:6.1.1-3ubuntu5+esm10 amd64 FFmpeg library containing media filters - runtime files
ii libavformat60:amd64 7:6.1.1-3ubuntu5+esm10 amd64 FFmpeg library with (de)muxers for multimedia containers - runtime files
ii libavutil58:amd64 7:6.1.1-3ubuntu5+esm10 amd64 FFmpeg library with functions for simplifying programming - runtime files
ii libavutil58:i386 7:6.1.1-3ubuntu5+esm10 i386 FFmpeg library with functions for simplifying programming - runtime files
ii libbotan-2-19:amd64 2.19.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2+esm1 amd64 multiplatform crypto library (2.x version)
ii libcjson-dev:amd64 1.7.17-1ubuntu0.1~esm3 amd64 Ultralightweight JSON parser in ANSI C (development files)
ii libcjson1:amd64 1.7.17-1ubuntu0.1~esm3 amd64 Ultralightweight JSON parser in ANSI C
ii libcmark-gfm-extensions0.29.0.gfm.6:amd64 0.29.0.gfm.6-6ubuntu0.24.04.1~esm1 amd64 CommonMark GitHub flavor gfm extension library
ii libcmark-gfm0.29.0.gfm.6:amd64 0.29.0.gfm.6-6ubuntu0.24.04.1~esm1 amd64 CommonMark GitHub flavor gfm library
ii libcommons-io-java 2.11.0-2ubuntu0.24.04.1~esm1 all Common useful IO related classes
ii libcommons-lang3-java 3.14.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 all Apache Commons Lang utility classes
ii libcryptx-perl 0.080-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 Perl module that provides a self-contained cryptographic toolkit
ii libfreerdp-client2-2t64:amd64 2.11.5+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.1~esm6 amd64 Free Remote Desktop Protocol library (client library)
ii libfreerdp2-2t64:amd64 2.11.5+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.1~esm6 amd64 Free Remote Desktop Protocol library (core library)
ii libgimp2.0t64:amd64 2.10.36-3ubuntu0.24.04.1+esm3 amd64 Libraries for the GNU Image Manipulation Program
ii libglut-dev:amd64 3.4.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 OpenGL Utility Toolkit development files
ii libglut3.12:amd64 3.4.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 OpenGL Utility Toolkit
ii libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12t64 1.4+really1.3.42-1.1ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 format-independent image processing - C++ shared library
ii libgraphicsmagick-q16-3t64 1.4+really1.3.42-1.1ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 format-independent image processing - C shared library
ii libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0:amd64 1.24.2-1ubuntu4+esm1 amd64 GStreamer libraries from the "bad" set
ii libimage-magick-perl 8:6.9.12.98+dfsg1-5.2ubuntu0.1~esm10 all Perl interface to the ImageMagick graphics routines
ii libimage-magick-q16-perl 8:6.9.12.98+dfsg1-5.2ubuntu0.1~esm10 amd64 Perl interface to the ImageMagick graphics routines -- Q16 version
ii libjs-katex 0.16.10+~cs6.1.0-2ubuntu0.24.04.1~esm1 all Fast math typesetting for the web (for browsers)
ii libmagick++-6.q16-9t64:amd64 8:6.9.12.98+dfsg1-5.2ubuntu0.1~esm10 amd64 C++ interface to ImageMagick -- quantum depth Q16
ii libmagickcore-6.q16-7-extra:amd64 8:6.9.12.98+dfsg1-5.2ubuntu0.1~esm10 amd64 low-level image manipulation library - extra codecs (Q16)
ii libmagickcore-6.q16-7t64:amd64 8:6.9.12.98+dfsg1-5.2ubuntu0.1~esm10 amd64 low-level image manipulation library -- quantum depth Q16
ii libmagickwand-6.q16-7t64:amd64 8:6.9.12.98+dfsg1-5.2ubuntu0.1~esm10 amd64 image manipulation library -- quantum depth Q16
ii libmbedcrypto7t64:amd64 2.28.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 lightweight crypto and SSL/TLS library - crypto library
ii libmbedtls14t64:amd64 2.28.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 lightweight crypto and SSL/TLS library - tls library
ii libmbedx509-1t64:amd64 2.28.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 lightweight crypto and SSL/TLS library - x509 certificate library
ii libopenexr-3-1-30:amd64 3.1.5-5.1ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 runtime files for the OpenEXR image library
ii libpostproc57:amd64 7:6.1.1-3ubuntu5+esm10 amd64 FFmpeg library for post processing - runtime files
ii libqt5concurrent5t64:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 concurrent module
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ii libqt5opengl5-dev:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 OpenGL library development files
ii libqt5opengl5t64:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 OpenGL module
ii libqt5pdf5:amd64 5.15.16+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 Qt 5 PDF library
ii libqt5printsupport5t64:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 print support module
ii libqt5qml5:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 QML module
ii libqt5qmlmodels5:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 QML Models library
ii libqt5qmlworkerscript5:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 QML Worker Script library
ii libqt5quick5:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 Quick library
ii libqt5quickparticles5:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 Quick particles module
ii libqt5quickshapes5:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 Quick Shapes module
ii libqt5quicktest5:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 Quick Test library
ii libqt5quickwidgets5:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 Quick Widgets library
ii libqt5sql5-mysql:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 MySQL database driver
ii libqt5sql5-sqlite:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 SQLite 3 database driver
ii libqt5sql5t64:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 SQL module
ii libqt5test5t64:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 test module
ii libqt5webengine-data 5.15.16+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 all Web content engine library for Qt - Data
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ii libqt5webenginecore5:amd64 5.15.16+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 Web content engine library for Qt - Core
ii libqt5webenginewidgets5:amd64 5.15.16+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 Web content engine library for Qt - Widget
ii libqt5widgets5t64:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 widgets module
ii libqt5xml5t64:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 XML module
ii libradare2-5.0.0t64:amd64 5.5.0+dfsg-1.1ubuntu3+esm1 amd64 libraries from the radare2 suite
ii libradare2-common 5.5.0+dfsg-1.1ubuntu3+esm1 all arch independent files from the radare2 suite
ii libradare2-dev 5.5.0+dfsg-1.1ubuntu3+esm1 amd64 devel files from the radare2 suite
ii libsvn1:amd64 1.14.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 Shared libraries used by Apache Subversion
ii libswresample4:amd64 7:6.1.1-3ubuntu5+esm10 amd64 FFmpeg library for audio resampling, rematrixing etc. - runtime files
ii libswresample4:i386 7:6.1.1-3ubuntu5+esm10 i386 FFmpeg library for audio resampling, rematrixing etc. - runtime files
ii libswscale7:amd64 7:6.1.1-3ubuntu5+esm10 amd64 FFmpeg library for image scaling and various conversions - runtime files
ii liburiparser1:amd64 0.9.7+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm2 amd64 URI parsing library compliant with RFC 3986
ii libvlc-bin:amd64 3.0.20-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 tools for VLC's base library
ii libvlc5:amd64 3.0.20-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 multimedia player and streamer library
ii libvlccore9:amd64 3.0.20-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 base library for VLC and its modules
ii libwinpr2-2t64:amd64 2.11.5+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.1~esm6 amd64 Windows Portable Runtime library
ii libzvbi-common 0.2.42-2ubuntu0.24.04.1~esm1 all Vertical Blanking Interval decoder (VBI) - common files
ii libzvbi0t64:amd64 0.2.42-2ubuntu0.24.04.1~esm1 amd64 Vertical Blanking Interval decoder (VBI) - runtime files
ii libzvbi0t64:i386 0.2.42-2ubuntu0.24.04.1~esm1 i386 Vertical Blanking Interval decoder (VBI) - runtime files
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ii nasm 2.16.01-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 amd64 General-purpose x86 assembler
ii node-lodash 4.17.21+dfsg+~cs8.31.198.20210220-9ubuntu0.24.04.1~esm1 all Lo-dash is a Node.js utility library
ii node-lodash-packages 4.17.21+dfsg+~cs8.31.198.20210220-9ubuntu0.24.04.1~esm1 all Lo-dash is a Node.js utility library (per method packages)
ii python3-aiohttp 3.9.1-1ubuntu0.1+esm2 amd64 http client/server for asyncio
ii python3-fonttools 4.46.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 Converts OpenType and TrueType fonts to and from XML (Python 3 Library)
ii python3-git 3.1.37-3ubuntu0.1~esm2 all Python library to interact with Git repositories
ii python3-pip 24.0+dfsg-1ubuntu1.3+esm3 all Python package installer
ii python3-tqdm 4.66.2-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 all fast, extensible progress bar for Python 3 and CLI tool
ii python3-wheel 0.42.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 all built-package format for Python
ii qml-module-qt-labs-animation:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 Qt.labs.animation QML module
ii qml-module-qt-labs-folderlistmodel:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 folderlistmodel QML module
ii qml-module-qt-labs-qmlmodels:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 Qt.labs.qmlmodels QML module
ii qml-module-qt-labs-settings:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 settings QML module
ii qml-module-qt-labs-sharedimage:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 SharedImage QML module
ii qml-module-qt-labs-wavefrontmesh:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 Qt.labs.wavefrontmesh QML module
ii qml-module-qtqml:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 QtQml QML module
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ii qml-module-qttest:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 test QML module
ii qml-module-qtwebengine:amd64 5.15.16+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 Qt WebEngine QML module
ii qt5-gtk-platformtheme:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 GTK+ 3 platform theme
ii qt5-image-formats-plugin-pdf:amd64 5.15.16+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 Qt 5 PDF image format plugin
ii qt5-qmake:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 qmake Makefile generator tool
ii qt5-qmake-bin 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 qmake Makefile generator tool — binary file
ii qt5-qmltooling-plugins:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 qmltooling plugins
ii qtbase5-dev:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 base development files
ii qtbase5-dev-tools 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 base development programs
ii qtbase5-private-dev:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 base private development files
ii qtdeclarative5-dev:amd64 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 declarative development files
ii qtdeclarative5-dev-tools 5.15.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 amd64 Qt 5 declarative development programs
ii radare2 5.5.0+dfsg-1.1ubuntu3+esm1 amd64 free and advanced command line hexadecimal editor
ii subversion 1.14.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 Advanced version control system
ii vlc 3.0.20-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 multimedia player and streamer
ii vlc-bin 3.0.20-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 binaries from VLC
ii vlc-data 3.0.20-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 all common data for VLC
ii vlc-l10n 3.0.20-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 all translations for VLC
ii vlc-plugin-access-extra:amd64 3.0.20-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 multimedia player and streamer (extra access plugins)
ii vlc-plugin-base:amd64 3.0.20-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 multimedia player and streamer (base plugins)
ii vlc-plugin-notify:amd64 3.0.20-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 LibNotify plugin for VLC
ii vlc-plugin-qt:amd64 3.0.20-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 multimedia player and streamer (Qt plugin)
ii vlc-plugin-samba:amd64 3.0.20-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 Samba plugin for VLC
ii vlc-plugin-skins2:amd64 3.0.20-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 multimedia player and streamer (Skins2 plugin)
ii vlc-plugin-video-output:amd64 3.0.20-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 multimedia player and streamer (video output plugins)
ii vlc-plugin-video-splitter:amd64 3.0.20-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 multimedia player and streamer (video splitter plugins)
ii vlc-plugin-visualization:amd64 3.0.20-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 amd64 multimedia player and streamer (visualization plugins)
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[Kabelbaum]

Oh, ok! That is quite a lot.
So I guess there are no downsides of having it enabled or at least enable it if I stay on LTS.
I think I will make an Ubuntu pro account.

[Virginio Miranda]

Do you guys use Ubuntu Pro on yout Kubuntu LTS setups? I am not sure about it. Seems to be like for Server stuff.

Yes, i always use Ubuntu Pro on Kubuntu LTS setup.