Sorry. That doesn’t explain why those users come to other distribution forums and channels and constantly spam on how Ubuntu is doing it better. If you ask them how, they will talk about Ubuntu specific kernel patches and things like that which are actually major issues of Ubuntu’s non collaboration. Users just dont realize that yet.

As for your “study” I would say users have always been users, just Ubuntu has more of them. Ie Ubuntu has a larger portion of pure users, whereas other distros have user / developers which are used to collaboration.

Nothing to see here really.

I’ve not read the magazine, and doubt I would purchase it for myself, so may have the wrong view, but I’ve considered this to me more akin to Computer Active for Linux or Linux for the Windows user. New users of Linux often want information to be very specific to their distribution, and once they’ve mastered that some (although not all) will branch out and explore other versions. So although clearly there will be some switch of readers from other publications, I would assume that it is aimed at a new market primarily.

Of course none of this addresses the issue of sustainability of a single distribution publication, or even an additional general Linux publication diluting the market, in todays financial climate.

This has raised a distantly related thought that I think I may blog about rather than add here!