It kinda depends. When I want to get going right away I want something that can do everything I need right away but over time I might just want what I use and no more. Right now im using an out of the box distro but I have plans to move to one that does not. If I had not done the out of the box though then I might have used my windows machine more to get something done rather than looking around for what would allow me to get it done on linux.