[dragonbite]

Ubuntu does more than marketing, they add tweaks to make regular things done easier, dare say easy enough for some not-so-technical people to do what they need to.

For example, and I have to admit I am not sure how openSUSE handles this, but a while back I was trying to install Java on my Fedora installation (soon to be overwritten with openSUSE Milestone 3, but that's another story).

When I finally was able to find a person's personal blog on the subject it took installing 2 programs/libraries, followed by downloading the .sh from Sun and then running a few commands to connect-the-dots between Java and Firefox.

Ubuntu, on the other hand, not only comes up with the "Missing Plugins" bar along the top of the page but when you click the "Install Plugin" button it gives you a list of 3 Java choices (OpenJDK, Java 5 and Java 6). Pick what you want, enter your (sudo) password and it does the rest for you, including the pop-up license agreement. Same thing with Adobe Flash.

That method is closest to (I think, it's been a while) how easy it is to get this running in Windows

So tweaks like that make Ubuntu that much more appealing. Plus I think there is quite a bit of the "comfort" level with picking the "popular" distro so there are more people who use it and better chance to get some answers, whether true or not.

That is compared to when I was trying to get my home network recognizing everybody else and in openSUSE had to go an manually edit the firewall settings. What's up with THAT?! Don't know if (hope it isn't) is still the case.