Yes! Many of the packages you have to install and pay for separately with Microsoft Windows come bundled with Linux for free. And if your particular choice of Linux doesn’t include the software you need, then almost everything you want can be downloaded for free, either directly from the software repository associated with your Linux distribution, or from: http://sourceforge.net/ & ftp://mirror.ac.uk/sites/

• Most Linux distributions ship with media players such as XMMS: http://www.xmms.org/about.php
  
• And a video player such as Xine: http://xinehq.de/
  
• Most Linux distributions have a built-in graphics viewer. They also ship with Gimp. This rivals the expensive Adobe Photoshop both in terms of power & functionality: http://www.gimp.org/
• Most Linux distributions now ship with an excellent open source office suite called OpenOffice.org. This opens & saves MS Word, MS Excel & MS PowerPoint formats, as well as opening & saving it its own native, XML-based and EU-approved format. OpenOffice.org is available for Linux & Windows free from: http://www.openoffice.org/ and for Macintosh from: http://www.neooffice.org/