No way, Ubuntu is more user-friendly than Linspire. While the whole CNR thing looked appealing to me back when I was still figuring out what distribution I liked best, it doesn’t differ that much from Ubuntu’s Add/Remove tool. I prefer Ubuntu over Linspire for both graphical and terminal-based (using ’sudo apt-get’) software management.

Out-of-the-box user friendly though? If you were a big business looking to switch to Linux you would probably want something that came with all of the proprietary codecs and stuff so that you didn’t have to worry about the legal entanglement that may result. I don’t think Linspire is necessarily geared towards consumers as much as it is businesses.

I don’t remember all of the details about the agreement, but those OS’s would need to have CNR running on them to get the access to their extensive library. I haven’t heard about a download available from any of those companies to get the CNR software, but it is currently in the Beta state.