Under Mandriva, a Fedora derivative I had Internet connection sooner than
under Ubuntu, still I like Ubuntu far more, its graphical interface is more
human, not so extraterrestrial and it is more usable. And I can find information
far, far easier and install and use a lot of programs.
One day I installed Fedora and in vain searched for info on how to install
programs from the repositories by using the command line.
Maybe, I am wrong, though.

One thing that really impressed me about Ubuntu occurred earlier this
year: the automatic and unattended upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04 after I
clicked "Yes, do it" (or whatever the option was). I didn't even do a
system backup beforehand because I "felt" that upgrade would succeed.
And it did.

In a nutshell, Wikipedia's decision further confirms we all made the
correct decision choosing Ubuntu. :-)

Trends I'm seeing from the Red Hat/CentOS camp leave me cold; did you
know their Live CDs won't even work if you have a SATA CD/DVD drive? I
had to do a bugzilla on that (and still no resolution). Ubuntu Live CD
work on everything I've tried and is what I use to fix other systems.

They've worked on every system I've tried except my Toshiba 1805-S203
laptop. This is pretty well documented on the web for 7.10, but not
yet for 8.04. I found a web page that told how to do a 7.10 install
from an alternate install CD, and found that it was actually simpler
with 8.04. Still no live CD for me though. I've documented what I did
at:

http://www.buchanan1.net/xubuntu_on_toshiba.shtml

There is also a link there to the web page about 7.10 on this machine.

BTW, I used to be a ReHat/Fedors/CentOS user at work and home (I
worked as an HP/UX/Solaris/Linux admin). When I retired, I tried
Ubuntu at home, and haven't looked back. Even for an old CLI junky
like myself, it's just a better distro.