I love the simplicity of upgrade manager and want to keep that. I want to avoid
having to do clever things with synpatic and terminal, even though I have
changed the software a few times. I have even been in terminal once or twice but
it is way out of my comfort zone.

The unity desktop is really annoying. I liked the drop down menu we had until a
couple of upgrades ago. The first time it changed I managed to get the drop
downs back but I understand that is no longer possible, hence the move to
Kubuntu.

I will look again to see if there are other options as Kubuntu was my immediate
choice. It seems to do everything I want and looks the no hassle alternative so
I looked no further.