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Because 15 years ago Ubuntu shipped them distro CDs in the mail for free, and Debian was an entire dvd to download, slowly. Their more clever friends were comp
by peddling-brink 3y ago
Because 15 years ago Ubuntu shipped them distro CDs in the mail for free, and Debian was an entire dvd to download, slowly.
Their more clever friends were compiling Arch, but who has time for that?
I say this tongue in cheek, as a personal lived experience.
- jzb 3y agoThis isn't wrong, really. Canonical, for all its flaws, correctly identified a lot of problems with Linux early on -- distribution, usability, application availability -- and then solved them. (Or made strides, anyway.) It also wasn't shy about marketing and made an effort to have a welcoming community whereas other communities were much less friendly to outsiders. The free CDs and Canonical's "ground game" in the face of the Red Hat Linux diaspora made it much more successful than other "Debian, but easier" efforts before it.