Picasa by Google is an application that I have used for several years for organizing photos, printing them, ordering them, importing them and so on. Initially, I had not even thought about not being able to use that while using Linux so when it did dawn on me that I needed access to all my photos, I was happy to see that fortunately for me, there is a Ubuntu version available for Linux as well.

As I write this, Picasa is in the middle of scanning all my photos.

I have to admit that so far everything is going very smooth.