What makes Ubuntu so user friendly?

“I have been using Linux for over ten years. My first induction
in the “cult-o-Linux” was with Caldera OpenLinux 1 and Red Hat 4.2.
Back then it was a completely different Linux. If you wanted to
install an application you most likely were going to install from
source or, if you were lucky, you could find an rpm package for
your Red Hat installation. But so many day-to-day activities were
handled from the command line. You mounted (and unmounted) floppy
disks from the command line. Most likely you started your dial-up
modem from the command line (and even had to write a bash script to
get it connected – remember Minicom?)

“Today, Linux is an all together different beast. But what makes
it user-friendly? And what, in specific, makes Ubuntu so appealing
that it could easily become the flagship Linux distribution? Let’s
take a look.”

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