I'm not surprised that's the case. For probably 15 years Ubuntu was the Linux distro for a variety of reasons, most simply because it was the most user friendly

I'm not surprised that's the case. For probably 15 years Ubuntu was the Linux distro for a variety of reasons, most simply because it was the most user friendly. Desktop Linux in the old days was a mess of different layers from different groups which didn't quite mesh together. I recall using some distros over a decade ago where you had three or four different Settings GUIs to look through to figure out how to customize something. Ubuntu, while not perfect, was far ahead of its peers. If you go on Steam and look at system requirements for Linux games, they still list the recommended Ubuntu version, that's how widespread it was. Now though? The rest caught up. Even in the last five years things have become incredibly painless across most desktops and environments. Ubuntu still has the big (for Linux) brand recognition, but on the desktop isn't anything special anymore, and if anything has begun alienating its users with forced snap packages, Amazon bloatware (although I think that was removed finally) and forced system upgrades.