I'm part of the technical crowd you talk about and I specifically choose ubuntu because I don't want to tweak my distro too much. I want free software that is g

I'm part of the technical crowd you talk about and I specifically choose ubuntu because I don't want to tweak my distro too much. I want free software that is good enough out of the box. Also my mother uses ubuntu, and she doesn't customize anything. You see, the linux user base is more diverse than the way you describe it.