I can elaborate a little. (This feels like pointless stirring, because even "Linux desktop software" is a vague topic where people can point to things linux doe

I can elaborate a little. (This feels like pointless stirring, because even "Linux desktop software" is a vague topic where people can point to things linux does better which are unrelated to my activities, as a windows home user (not yet a tech professional like most of HN) occasionally checking over the years to see if I can recreate windows life on a $0 OS) Four or five years back, I was trying linux torrent clients and got round to deluge. I thought "Wow.. the UI layout and column choices, equal to utorrent.. the options... almost as comprehensive as utorrent, equally coherent... okay this big torrent is slow to load and there's the occasional crash, but apart from that this is as good as windows software". So torrenting was covered. Unfortunely, music playing, media playing, etc weren't. And built-in distro wares (eg abiword, ristretto) only serve as reminders that you're in windows minus. (In fairness, they might technically do everything wordpad and windows photo viewer do, while feeling less slick because the OS is behind in ergonomics). But thats me, waiting for a lucky free windows clone whether thats fair or not.