Back in '07 it was an easy entry into Linux and was praised constantly.
I’m not completely sure if they were the distro that started the trend, but the ‘Ubunufication’ of distros since then has made Linux easier to access.
It’s a shame that they began sharing telemetry and displaying ads to their users. As more distros break ranks for profit, like Red Hat and Suse, we will slowly see more techs accepting this behavior.