Gimp and/or Crossover office if you are a photoshop power user..
> 2) Dreamweaver
??? Useless program. The only proper thing to do with the html/javascript generated by Dreamweaver is to delete it.
> 3) Concerns that old files in different formats will be unreadable by
> Linux programs.
Unfounded, you should be more concerned they will be abandoned by commercial software more interested in getting you to upgrade than supporting your old files.
> 4) Gaming support
Get a gaming console.
> 5) Gimp is not Photoshop. I'm sorry, please don't show me a Kia and tell
> me that it is a Porsche
That is true. Gimp is not Photoshop. However, solidarity is a component of strugle. Will you sell out your comrades for whatever extra features photoshop provides? Gimp is yours. Photoshop is not.
> 6) Desktop publishing and pre-press. Can I do a magazine on Ubuntu and
> get it to the printer okay?
I you want to, you can. If you want to find excuses, you will.
-- Dmytri Kleiner, robotnik Telekommunisten, Berlin.
dk at telekommunisten.net http://www.telekommunisten.net freenode/#telnik