I liked the rev however I don't know where your going with this bit.
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You won't find BI tools, database apps, media creation apps, and so on, as you would for Windows or the Mac. If you think the Mac has too few apps to be used in business, you'll downright dismiss desktop Linux.
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Im not sure what your getting at with this bit. There's plenty of these apps for GNU/Linux and you can find at least one of each in the Ubuntu package manager (Well I did a quick search with synaptic and found them but I have all Canonical repos enabled and two third paty repos).
Installing most software from source is not exactly difficult especially if you read the README and INSTALL files that are usally in the tarball you download.
You also mentioned lack of Adobe and IBM software, Well I dont use any IBM software so I cant comment, but there's enough adobe software for any one who is not a graphic desighner (Flash and Acrobat). although I only have flash installed as there are many PDF editors/Viewers on GNU/Linux (my experience they don't render as truly as Acrobat but often do it a lot faster and in a much smaller footprint than adobe offering.
OK I'd except that Linux isn't a perfect desktop OS but I dont think Xp or Vista is either.