[microchip8]

I think your proposal is just stupid, no hard feelings. You don't just go "invade" some Linux forum and try to convert the people there to your distro. The only thing that will come out of such an action is a distro war and flames. This is all that you will get. Further, a lot of Ubuntu people are blinded by it and are know as the biggest trolls on the Internet in regards to Linux and their distro so it will be extremely difficult for you to convince a large enough amount to swtich over that will be enough to justify your effort and actions.

Further, Ubuntu is not popular because it is the best of all distros, but because of the excellent marketing machine that is Canonical. Novell does a poor job at that since they are more focusing on the enterpriese world instead of the home user, its strategy is different than the one deployed by Canonical.

If you have an excellent marketing machine like Canonical, no matter how bad your product might be, it will still sell as hot bread to the largely clueless public.

The userbase that Ubuntu today enjoys is largely because of Canonical's effort to make it the most popular distro around. Most popular one does not directly imply that it is the best one.

If you go around their forums are try to convert Ubuntu users to openSUSE, you will find yourself after a while exhausted from argumenting with them and your efforts will be in vain. Maybe a few will switch, but the larger userbase will just stick to Ubuntu. This is true for every other distro around. Lets turn around the cards. What if a Ubuntu user came here and tried to convince openSUSE people to switch over to Ubuntu. How many of the loyal users of openSUSE do you think will completely switch? My guess is very few, if none at all.