It will never truly be the year of the Linux desktop until this is fixed. Even assuming the developers of the major pieces of proprietary software were willing

It will never truly be the year of the Linux desktop until this is fixed. Even assuming the developers of the major pieces of proprietary software were willing to put in the work to port, say, Photoshop or Word, packaging the result is made intentionally asinine. It's literally easier to run old Windows binaries on a Linux than to run old Linux binaries on Linux.