"Normally I just ignore this kind of stuff, so as not to start a flame war. But I think the Distrowatch guys were polite in the way they wrote the article, so I shall write back and attempt to be equally polite, and just leave it at a one post each thing, and not start a flame war.
"The Distrowatch piece centers on a fact: there have been surveys conducted asking people what Linux distribution they would like to see shipped on various laptops (Dell and Lenovo). Ubuntu has handily won these surveys..."