[adithyassekhar]

Sadly people can't do much with an OS that doesn't run the applications they want. Until that becomes a reality no one is paying for Linux.

[willtemperley]

Gaming works well on Linux, probably because people pay for games.

There's already tons of power software for Linux (e.g. Blender) but it's not always easy to use.

I don't see why the App Store model wouldn't work on Linux too.

[dm319]

Given how well windows games now run on linux through proton, it just made me think - surely, Outlook/Word etc should run easily?

That would be strange firing up Word from Steam though.

Companies seem completely dependent on the Word/Outlook ecosystem. I hope this will change in the future, and not just for some other US tech oligopoly.

[Spivak]

Which is crazy because Outlook the actual application has got to be one of the worst email clients in existence. The only email client that I've dealt with that had more problems was the one guy who insisted on still using pine.

[krater23]

M$ is doing all to press them into cloud services and browser based usage of this tools. So, just wait some years and this is not a issue anymore.

[SahAssar]

I think for most people the apps either have equivalent web versions (because they are already electron/similar on OSX/Win) or have linux native versions (basically all software engineering tools like IDE:s, compilers).

Sure, there are professions where that is not true (adobe, xcode, etc.), but I think most people on this forum could switch to linux without problems.