The desktop/laptop market is becoming less general consumer and more professional, yet MS and Apple are targeting the consumer experience. MS keeps trying to ge

The desktop/laptop market is becoming less general consumer and more professional, yet MS and Apple are targeting the consumer experience. MS keeps trying to get in on the mobile market and failing hard, leaving their professional desktop/laptop users frustrated in a wasteland of poorly planned mobile features. Apple is doing it with their desktop OS because they've stopped caring about it, they've won the mobile market. Linux is the only option left for OS. Unfortunately, too many professional tools only run on Windows and/or Mac right now, doubly unfortunate is that a lot of them are made by MS or Apple and they're unlikely to port to Linux any time soon. I think a good strategy going forward for desktop software developers would be, not to ignore Windows and Mac, but to include Linux as a target from the beginning, maybe even make it first priority. Then maybe down the road, if a good chunk of the lock-in tools get replaced, a lot less people will be stuck. When less people are stuck, quality goes up all around due to competition. Selling on Linux is definitely hard, but companies will pay if the licensing requires it. I hate proprietary software as much as the next FOSS zealot but just getting people on to Linux is a win, if that means a few closed source/strict license/vague EULA tools become prevalent on Linux, so be it.