It is funny to me when people say Ubuntu is less out-of-the-box ready than OSX and especially Windows, since they AFAIK don’t come with office suites, torrent clients, reasonable image editing and cd/dvd burning applications, just to name a few important applications. In the case of Windows you probably also need to replace the browser, IM client, and media player.

I guess my point is that, if you had to pick an OS to use without modification, if you actually thought about all the things OSX and Windows can’t do out-of-the-box, it would look a little different. I think most people tend to compare their already set up OSX / Windows install to a fresh Ubuntu install, and forget how much they really had to add before it was usable.