Well, if you do not care about violated desktop settings (or you wouldn't even notice) then my review is not for you.
As to those poor souls with no legal Windows: how many are there in a big picture? Certainly not enough to convince vendors to care for them seriously, else we would see "linux" in descriptions of supported platforms of mainstream hardware where even Mac is rare. Today it is virtually impossible to buy a PC without even some "home" Windows version on it. But even if you do what I did (wipe the disk clean to install Ubuntu) you still have your serial number for your Virtual Box. As to LigthZone: for similar money I would definitely buy Windows Home Edition if I had none, on which I could run Picasa and others of similar kind (Virtual Box, dual boot, or a separate cheap netbook). I never worked with LightZone (I spent years with Photoshop though). It is probably worth its money. Only I get all I need with python and ImageMagick to process rolls of photos automatically (and Gimp, where manual touch is inevitable) and its price (0$) is no argument for this choice. The only thing that I actually miss, is a way to publish many photos in one go. If I knew how to do it in python I wouldn't even care about F-spot. A bottom line: I believe Google did a better investment supporting existing native solutions over using linux as a layer to run Windows applications. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-labs-picasa-for-linux?hl=en.
