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All that is, is a photo browser. Lightroom is much more! Lightroom will import from any RAW format, convert to DNG, or JPG, or TIF. Lightroom does great edits to photo. With Lightroom only about 5% of photos go to Photoshop for work

It is very, very far from a Lightroom replacement.

Yes, I know about it, it's called Gimpshop. Gimp is still not a good replacement for photoshop. It can't play in 16 bit color space, it's doesn't have non destructive editing, it doesn't import RAW files. These are the big ones, it can't do. Gimp is still back about 10 years in the photo editing world, more so now with CS5 out.

Do I really wish there was more that just one OS to fill the needs of all, YES.

I really like openoffice, it's fun, clean, and can do 90% of my MS Word and Excel jobs. But, for most of my needs, I really need and use that 10% I can't get with openoffice.

I would have to say for 80% of the people with a PC Linux and open source would work. For the people that need just an email, web browsing, word processor it's great. But start working on advanced spread sheets, data bases, and desktop publishing you really need MS office.

I use Ubuntu to read my gmail account, web surfing to questionable places. It works great for that, but there is still much of a limitation on the other things I do with a computer.

Mark