As much as I prefer other distributions over it, I am grateful for everything that Ubuntu has done to grow the Linux userbase.
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Man, I remember buying a Linux Format(?) magazine once and breaking out the included 7.10 CD.
Later distros I messed with I remember waiting hours for those few hundred MB to download on my parent’s DSL connection, oh how times have changed!
I downloaded several distros in the last days and it was faster to download them then copying them on the USB drive. That felt weird.