IBM's new Ubuntu-based desktop offering

If those drivers help make the system usable, more power to them. On my Fedora-laptop, my WiFi does not work. I spent 30 minutes trying to get it to work, but no use. So I decided to replace fedora with something else (not just because of that, there were other reasons as well). So how did that benefit Free Softtware in any shape or form? I had a laptop that did not function properly. Had I been a user migrating from Windows or Mac to Linux, I would have gotten the impression that Linux is crap. Again: where is the benefit for free software?