I hope the desktop capability is a big seller too, but so far Microsoft has been unable to sell the "all-in-one" experience at a highly successful level with its phone, and they're much better known and more accessible for most users than Ubuntu.
Sorry, what I meant was that I don't believe in the network effect like I don't believe in [the eternal "rightness" of] Communism, not like I don't believe in Santa Claus.
I've read this exact same thing over and over and over again, which leads me to believe that it's not true. The genuinely different bit for me, by the way, probably won't be its decentralized nature that makes it appealing. It will be appealing, and someone who cares enough will make it decentralized.