It's sad because it's a genuinely good distro. Linux wouldn't be anywhere without it yet all I hear is people parroting the same misinformation they heard.
Linux wouldn’t be anywhere without is an incredibly shortsighted statement given that redhat has been the defacto standard in the enterprise and for (US) govt purposes
I should've worded that better then. Linux wouldn't be anywhere when it comes to consumer devices like laptops and desktops. It's possible that without Canonical someone else would've made a just works distro for regular people, but they were the first. As far as I know that is. I haven't used Linux around 2004.