tbh bring Wayland up to the polish level of everyday-use pipewire and i'm good to go.
there is a lot of stuff that could be done, but if the little random issues and crashes of wayland are fixed, i could actually just recommend Linux to the casual non-tech audience.

Support for FL Studio. The one program I love to tinker with, but won't work (easily) under Linux.

wishlist: please don't overhaul great programs. best example: Pinta. it got so bad with version 3...

Any new fighting games with native ports.

Really I'd just like to see a resurgence of native ports in general, not just my own favorite genre.

Quoting: SarSupport for FL Studio. The one program I love to tinker with, but won't work (easily) under Linux.

I am currently running FL Studio under Wine without major issues. Native Linux support would be great though so I hope Image-Line are considering it.

The elephant in the room: anticheat.

The baby elephant: Wayland compositors unifying global shortcuts.

The doable: nvidia drivers to be proud of.

The wet dream: being able to build Linux PCs at human prices again.

Hi, Liam, thanks for invitation to participate to discussion.

First of all, I would like to see more native game ports for Linux. I believe this is essential, as native performance will be superior on Wayland. However, this requires game engines that support Wayland—which is the second thing I’d like to see.

Naturally, I’d also like to see more professional-grade software—the kind already available on Linux, such as Reaper, PreSonus (now Fender Studio), Maya, Nuke, and DaVinci.

I have also been a strong advocate for musl and distributions like Alpine and Chimera; it is important to me that NVIDIA releases a driver variant for musl (even though my work laptop uses Intel). It is also crucial that cross-platform frameworks—such as Flutter, Electron, and Jetpack Compose—gain support for musl.

The one and only thing i don't like much about linux. Lack of great Music production support ((DAWs,midi Devices etc). Sure there are some decent ones and most of the DAWs/VSTs can be used with wine mostly without problem, but every now and then theres a VST that just doesn't work at all or requires extra tweaking or going down the rabbithole of third-party github projects. Same with some devices that need a thirdparty git-hub repo to have some extra functionality.

Better anticheat support would be second thing to want probably.

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For me personally:
1. Anti-cheat it would be nice if we had a nice uplift in titles enabling Linux, I don't expect everyone and that is fine but its a large roadblock for people who want to switch. Going hand in hand with this is game stability, you mainly play a few titles and want to switch to Linux, you want those games to work and not have the developers pull the plug down the line.

2. Most consistent app packaging.

3. Applications getting similar polish of look, feel and features as on Windows.

Quoting: DeanoVIPFor me personally:
1. Anti-cheat it would be nice if we had a nice uplift in titles enabling Linux, I don't expect everyone and that is fine but its a large roadblock for people who want to switch. Going hand in hand with this is game stability, you mainly play a few titles and want to switch to Linux, you want those games to work and not have the developers pull the plug down the line.

2. Most consistent app packaging.

3. Applications getting similar polish of look, feel and features as on Windows.

Your complaints are valid.
Now I'm going to give a little rant about point two.
The solution already exists it's called appimage.
It has all the features .exe has it's available on every Linux distro and if you need into a package manager just host a repo with them.

I know why it doesn't work. It doesn't handle dependencies for you requiring an installer, which is more work, meaning nobody actually makes appimages.

It just feels sad to see such a beautiful tool go to waste.

Quoting: XpanderThe one and only thing i don't like much about linux. Lack of great Music production support ((DAWs,midi Devices etc). Sure there are some decent ones and most of the DAWs/VSTs can be used with wine mostly without problem, but every now and then theres a VST that just doesn't work at all or requires extra tweaking or going down the rabbithole of third-party github projects. Same with some devices that need a thirdparty git-hub repo to have some extra functionality.

Better anticheat support would be second thing to want probably.

I long for the day we get decent native VST support on Linux.
I've been playing a lot with MilkyTracker though.

Quoting: LoudTechieYour complaints are valid.
Now I'm going to give a little rant about point two.
The solution already exists it's called appimage.
It has all the features .exe has it's available on every Linux distro and if you need into a package manager just host a repo with them.

I know why it doesn't work. It doesn't handle dependencies for you requiring an installer, which is more work, meaning nobody actually makes appimages.

It just feels sad to see such a beautiful tool go to waste.

There is the PORTABLE LINUX APPS (External Link: You need to be logged in to view this.) catalog which currently has 2962 AppImage packages in it's database. Together with AM / AppMan it gives great solution for installing those AppImages. Also there are two GUI tools under development that work with AM.

About this project

Portable Linux Apps are standalone applications for GNU/Linux that can run everywhere, also on a USB stick. These can be AppImage packages or standalone archives. Each app has its own installation script, PKGBUILD style, managed by the AM package manager (External Link: You need to be logged in to view this.).

This catalog is open source. You can contribute by editing the pages, adding missing information, or improving the database.

Quoting: Bestia

Quoting: LoudTechieYour complaints are valid.
Now I'm going to give a little rant about point two.
The solution already exists it's called appimage.
It has all the features .exe has it's available on every Linux distro and if you need into a package manager just host a repo with them.

I know why it doesn't work. It doesn't handle dependencies for you requiring an installer, which is more work, meaning nobody actually makes appimages.

It just feels sad to see such a beautiful tool go to waste.

There is the PORTABLE LINUX APPS (External Link: You need to be logged in to view this.) catalog which currently has 2962 AppImage packages in it's database. Together with AM / AppMan it gives great solution for installing those AppImages. Also there are two GUI tools under development that work with AM.

About this project

Portable Linux Apps are standalone applications for GNU/Linux that can run everywhere, also on a USB stick. These can be AppImage packages or standalone archives. Each app has its own installation script, PKGBUILD style, managed by the AM package manager (External Link: You need to be logged in to view this.).

This catalog is open source. You can contribute by editing the pages, adding missing information, or improving the database.

Okay, very impressive, but it requires giving up the primary selling point of an appimage.
You don't need custom user side tooling, because it's part of the Kernel itself.