Kylin: The multiple semi-official Chinese versions of Ubuntu

Ubuntu 22.04.1 appeared earlier this month, and along with the other flavors of Ubuntu, that means a new release of Ubuntu Kylin too. If openKylin is an accurate indicator, then rather than Ubuntu Kylin being based on Ubuntu with the desktop from KylinOS, it's really the other way round: openKylin is based on Ubuntu. We decided to use the names of the ISO files to distinguish them: the international Ubuntu Kylin, and the Chinese Ubuntu Kylin Pro. Ubuntu Kylin is somewhat quicker and easier to install, and to update and modify, than Ubuntu Kylin Pro. It's not perfect - for instance, we prefer menu bars to UKUI's half-hidden "Hamburger menu", but many desktops favour this style now, including recent versions of KDE. We asked Canonical how official Ubuntu Kylin was as a project. Ubuntu Kylin is a project which we recognise as an official flavor. Neither Canonical nor The Register have any official download numbers, and Ubuntu Kylin is only number 115 or so on Distrowatch, but we suspect it might be substantially more popular than that suggests.