F-Sport vs. Flickr Uploadr

I have been looking for the best way to manage my photo’s:

MAC METHOD

While the iBook and iPhoto give me some good organization and a great flickr plugin the downside is the average file size is 5MB for the E-500, and the iBook has a small drive, so throw in the fact I had a thousand or so already in there, it was filling up fast - secondly, the E-500’s RAW format (ORF) is not supported, so iPhoto was confused as to what the other files were on the camera, iPhoto can support AVI/MOV now from cameras, however the E-500 is video free, just stills.

Lastly as the camera is USB 1.1 speeds, 5MB takes a LONG time to import, but solved that with a card reader (which I now use on all systems).

So that left me leaning away from the Mac - maybe if you guys get me that Quad G5 for my Birthday… well a guy can dream can’t he?

WINDOWS METHOD

Windows aka one of my main workstations, a collective 450GB on a single setup - lots of space, but again, the same issue as iPhoto, lack of RAW support in Picasa - again while great tools to manage the photos, in the end I can’t keep my digital negatives, there is an app that came with the camera, but it was slow, felt like a poorly written Java application - but it just wasn’t doing it.

So scratch windows, lots of storage, but no bang for my buck, the only thing it had going for it was Flickr Upload (similar to the iBook) but there was a catch, the reason it uploads so quickly, it scales my photos down some - hince leading me to the last method, which I half use.

UBUNTU LINUX METHOD

Ah yes, F-Spot your truly a beautiful program - iPhoto-ish workings, linux greatness all in all it works great to organize, the thing that scared me was the Flickr export from within it, slow slow slow, well after comparing some photos uploaded with Flickr upload (which uploads MUCH quicker) the Export function from within F-Spot by default leaves re-size unchecked, thus a 8MP original is uploaded, but in the case of the photos I just put up, that’d of been 168MB of uploading later! But in the final run, F-Spot (and assorted other Linux apps) understand the E-500’s RAW format! So I can do quick-re-touches, and plus use Photoshop (as needed) to re-touch things as well - very lovely setup.
All in all for me it really boils down to Windows vs Linux, however I find myself on my linux console more and more, while I still turn my chair towards this monitor (aka the Windows rig) - the tasks I can do more and more on the linux box are becoming more and more enjoyable - now I just need 1-2Mbps upload speeds and I am set.