This 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.
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.