Reason #4: The Gimp was slower at opening 250 images than Photoshop!

I kid you not. From the Ubuntu Forums (I'll paraphrase):

I tried opening 250 digital photos in The Gimp on the latest Ubuntu, and it was slower to open them than Photoshop on a 6-year-old version of Windows! And then, rather than resize them in my actual image editing program, I tried using one program on Kubuntu to resize and upload to Flickr, and it doesn't resize! If Linux on the desktop is going to succeed, then basic functionality like this needs to be sorted.

Basic functionality? Mr Average Joe is waiting eagerly to switch to Linux, as soon as he can open 250 photos in The Gimp just to look at them. Yeah. Mr Joe already has a $1000 copy of Adobe Photoshop, apparently, to compare against, yet he's not knowledgeable enough to think of looking for another program, one which will do the Flickr resizing for him.