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Originally Posted by microchip8
Ubuntu - got its fame due to excellent marketing, not so much due to technical superiority. That's all ...
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Not quite all... (k)ubuntu also got there by supporting more drivers (e.g. video) in distro, and more stuff works ootb. openSUSE may be technically superior in many ways, but it burns far too much processor e.g. on multimedia such as streaming video (and unstable). That's ok for those fanboys with big video cards, but excludes many users with onboard chips. Any distro can look good on powerful H/W, but it takes more engineering skill to achieve good results on modest H/W. Kubuntu (and other smaller distros) has achieved just that. If distros with fewer resources can manage to support those users, it doesn't say much for the technical prowess of openSUSE. A mainstream distro needs to cater for a very wide range of hardware (as Microsoft did).
As you said, PulseAudio (WTF), when ALSA had achieved so much (finally caught up with Win95). So much for technical judgement. I don't see real music distros, such as 64Studio, bothering with P/A. I can only think the push for it came from Novell and their microsoft interoperability requirement.