> I'd say a good usable mail client, a readily available video editor, sound recording software and office suite are more important than an advanced audio mixer

> I'd say a good usable mail client, a readily available video editor, sound recording software and office suite are more important than an advanced audio mixer. I'm not disputing that. It isn't hard to agree on what an average user definitely needs and therefore must work. The hard part is where to draw the line, what is still needed and what is niche. > This seems like a very niche use case. Maybe. But it's very much something an "average user" might want. It's actually something I want to be able to do so I can watch a film with my sister, each with our own headphones. That's a real user need, not something "meta" like the FLOSS things you mentioned (not a solution by itself, but something that can help a programmer fill that user need).