[oldgun]

As much as I want to believe it, Linux is still quite lagging in the personal computing area, where hardware support, graphics support, creativity application support, and enterprise support are still far behind Windows/Mac. Linux still has a long way to go.

[jay_kyburz]

Its a chicken and egg problem. We need people using it and the software will catchup.

I a recent convert to Linux desktop, and it's not as far behind as I thought it would be.

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

> Its a chicken and egg problem. We need people using it and the software will catchup.

I doubt it. There's a lot of reasons developers don't target Linux and "it doesn't have users" is only one. Look at the several game devs who decided to stop supporting Linux after trying it. Linux Desktop's software distribution mechanism of choice is to insert community repo maintainers between developers and users, there are some 300 distributions all of which potentially have completely different base libraries, drivers are generally worse and no one takes responsibility for fixing them, etc.