YES PLEASE. I very much badly want a Linux version of DeLorme Street Atlas or Microsoft Streets. I know there is a Linux mapping app, but I need one with more features for my laptop. Who can I send money???
A good desktop on-computer tool to do my taxes, something like T@x or WISO Steuer (Germany), which both are only available for Windows or as trunkated Android or Online-Apps, which requires me to trust their provider (and Google *shudders*) with very important and personal financial data.
What I relly miss is a PDM/PLM/DMS like aproach for the Filesystem. I had it in several companies and it made your life so much easier. I would like to have all files in my home and /etc file versioned. Every change is revertable. All versions should be acessible by cli and also navive acessible from Gnome or KDE Filemanager. Why the heck is it so complicated to get a native Version management. Never ever bother with overwriting or change a file again.
anything related to lab equipment: apps for controlling lab power supply, oscilloscopes, other kinds of devices… also companion apps for eeprom programmers and so on… it’s really crazy that you get that on Windows but not on Linux.
Microsoft office. Then I wouldn't need to run a windows VM, ever.
And listen, before anyone flames me, the office apps are objectively superior in terms of ergonomics and advanced feature completeness. And they don't run well in Crossover or wine. I hate MS as much as the next linux user but i know robust software when i use it.
Alternatively an open office alternative could become amazing but nobody seems to be in a rush to hit feature parity.
What I also miss is an aoto heal ability for Grub. I'm a normal user i'm not able to handle Linux if it boot into grub emergency mode. In the last 15y i had 7 cases on two different computers where a start ended on a Grub emergency mode. And I ended in reinstall the system. (Who the fuck invented this emergency mode should be forced to have every time a stone in his shoe if he go to wear some )
The amateur radio community uses a program called Winlink. It's critical infrastructure during emergency events where commercial services may be offline. As the name implies, it's a Windows program. Amateurs with Linux based computing rely on Wine to bridge the gap. It would be nice to have a native FOSS alternative.
I miss a #virtualFS (#openvfs)approach like nextcloud, dropbox and onedrive use on Windows. In best case it is independet usable on all kind of network storage like sftp, nfs or smb. I miss, - the possibility to have auto cached network files - the possibility to have some files or directory permanently in sync
I hate it that a linux laptop even with VPN is not able to stay connected to a network folder especialy if you work with hibernation.
CAD and CAM software like Rhinoceros 3D, Solidworks, Creo, CATIA, NX, Mastercam, icem, etc. PDF X-Change. Peripheral software, e.g. for Logitech or Corsair (I know Solaris and ckb-next but they don't offer all the functionality the windows ones do).
"APB: Reloaded" online video game & I miss playing it. "EditPlus" text editor that I find useful. As time has gone by I care less and less for apps made for windows as many of them suck. Linux has most of what I need.
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •I would like to have all files in my home and /etc file versioned. Every change is revertable. All versions should be acessible by cli and also navive acessible from Gnome or KDE Filemanager.
Why the heck is it so complicated to get a native Version management.
Never ever bother with overwriting or change a file again.
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •Microsoft office. Then I wouldn't need to run a windows VM, ever.
And listen, before anyone flames me, the office apps are objectively superior in terms of ergonomics and advanced feature completeness. And they don't run well in Crossover or wine. I hate MS as much as the next linux user but i know robust software when i use it.
Alternatively an open office alternative could become amazing but nobody seems to be in a rush to hit feature parity.
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I miss,
- the possibility to have auto cached network files
- the possibility to have some files or directory permanently in sync
I hate it that a linux laptop even with VPN is not able to stay connected to a network folder especialy if you work with hibernation.
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Peripheral software, e.g. for Logitech or Corsair (I know Solaris and ckb-next but they don't offer all the functionality the windows ones do).
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As time has gone by I care less and less for apps made for windows as many of them suck.
Linux has most of what I need.