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- AFAIK Ubuntu generally took users away from other linux distributions. while having little impact on overall linux marketshare.
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(My first was some cd on a magazine called Redmond, which i used for a few hours before going back to window.)
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AFAIK Ubuntu also doesn't really sell a desktop OS. (does it have a support services?)
Even without focussing on the desktop, Red Hat spends and has spent far more money and resources on developing desktop techonologies, X, drivers etc than Canonical (which has develops Unity but very little underlying infrastructure)
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Beyond that, the early Fedora Core releases had some problems that were pretty major - iirc with Fedora Core 2 release, Anaconda didn't add the Windows XP dual boot option into the bootloader, which took me ages to get around.
In another early release, updates were broken unless you took a manual step to fix the problem with up2date.
Multimedia codec support was also troublesome before things coalesced into RPMFusion - before then there were too many repositories that did not play well and the RPM Forge initiative that was there before RPMFusion didn't really work too well.
Fedora was a new project and it took a while for things to run smoothly and at the time Ubuntu was a better option for many people. I do not think this is still the case.
IMO Ubuntu generally took people away from other distributions,but hasn't really increased the linux user pool. The people who it took away from Windows would probably have jumped ship to another distro anyway.
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