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If those apps are all you need to do your job then great. Most of my daily duties involve a lot more than a browser, chat and ghetto office suite - and openoffice/libreoffice are ghetto. Linux is a neat toy but it isn't good for anyone who has real work to do. It's the best server platform on the planet though.
Avoid Ubuntu btw. Canonical is greedy as shit. They've taken something meant to be free and shared and done their very best to commercialize it. You can't even find the word "Linux" on ubuntu.com without some serious digging.
They've dumped the standard window manager (Gnome) for their own piece of shit (Unity). The best newbie distro available is Linux Mint. From what I have heard they are forking Gnome 2 and will continue to develop and use it. Fedora 14 is great too. Fedora 15 uses Gnome 3 by default. Not sure if I like it yet but it's better than Unity.
Also consider Debian. All of the *buntu distros are derived from Debian.
I shouldn't talk shit on Linux desktops. Sometimes I boot into Linux to code just to eliminate some distractions. I can't edit video, use photoshop, illustrator, or play decent games. What I can do is open vim and code my ass off.
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