I have used TaxAct for almost 20 years and would like to see a linux version or ported to linux. I have tried to use Wine without success. Or some good directions for using with wine.
Thanks
john

Number one would be Quicken, number two would be Photoshop Elements (the UI is a bit cleaner than The GIMP), and third would be Evernotes (even though it runs well under WINE).

Regards,
Ed

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TurboTax, definitely. When I'm forced to move to Windows 10 and have to agree to give Microsoft the right to search my disk and do anything they want with the data they find there, I don't see how I can continue to use a Windows machine for my taxes. And my return is way too complex to manage with TurboTax Online.

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Well, I'm addicted to Netflix, as I imagine many of us are. Any chance of some app, program, or coded workaround that would allow us to watch Netflix on Linux based OS? would I love it or what.

Not sure if this has been asked: how about scanner software that works in linux? I have a CanonScan 4400F that only works in Windows and I cannot migrate to linux without a reliable scanner.

An open source Google drive sync tool, equivalent to the one Google makes available for Mac and Windows.

First of all, shoot me if you think I am not right, but reading the first post on this thread, back in 2003, leads me to a question: who do you think would read the entire thread, which is so long, just to prospect the interest of some people in some piece of software? Anyway, I would make some poll on the apps requested here, I'd love to see what happens!

Me, I want to tell you, the classy community here, what I would love to have on Linux.
It is not a big list, just two things: an open source add-on to Thunderbird to be able to access Exchange servers, to replace the Outlook, this is all I need to have a complete Office suite. LibreOffice is enough, I think it is good enough to replace MS Office.
The second one is .... Adobe Adobe Adobe!!! Me, just Photoshop and Illustrator would be enough. I know all the discussions Gimp/Inkscape vs. PS/AI. Thing is, from my experience, PS is at least three times faster than Gimp in productivity (don't speak here of the times for some specific processing, but of methodology) and the fact that Illustrator is an industry standard, Inkscape being not able to export an EPS as Illustrator in matter of format, like losing the vector itself somehow during the process. And I DO LOVE Inkscape and what it could create and its tools. The future could be great for Inkscape and I look forward to its new releases each time. Just they had a too slow release process in the last years...

These are my needs and would help me get rid of Windows of my PCs, what a bless would be !.

http://www.digitalgametechnology.com/

There is a (crappy) driver for windows, I've read that in the past a dgtnix driver was created by someone, but it seems is no longer supported.

Believe me or not, this is the only f@#ۤing piece of software that prevents me to switch completely to linux

My first priority would be Evernote.
Then I'd have to go for my most used music programs, Noteworthy Composer, Guitar Pro 6 and Band-in-a-Box.

I don't run Photoshop much anymore, but yeah, to have a native Linux version would be good. To see a Linux version of Poser Pro (Smith-Micro software) would be amazing. I can run Photoshop in Windows in a VM, Mercalli in a VMed Windows, even DaVinci Resolve (Win) runs well in a VM (there is actually a Linux version of DaVinci Resolve, but only in the pay-for version). Poser needs direct access to the hardware and so VMs are out, unless I'm much mistaken (would love to be proven wrong on this one!).
Indeed, Poser is the only reason I still have a Windows-install-on-bare-metal at all: anything else, I can run in Windows7/VirtualBox. I would love to develop my VBA stuff in LibreOffice, but it doesn't look like the Open Document Foundation are doing much with the "macro" end of things at this point.

Microsoft Publisher for obvious reasons.

I use Windows 7 and have eight books on Amazon and continue to write others. I write all my books in Atlantis Word Processor after I switched from Word 2010. I have loaded full Linux Mint onto another computer and would like to have Atlantis ported to that distro.
fr

Nightengale for Music -
solely for the reason that it actually finds lyrics for the songs as Songbird Did, and if it can't it will open a internet search tab to find them and allow you to edit them and save them. Simple but Awesome. Rhythmbox uses to do this and still has an addon for it but RARELY works making it more frustrating than helpful.

And of course the only dealbreaker for windows users (other than GAMES)
yes you get it ... Photoshop

And as a Linux supporter for 15 years and have converted HUNDREDS of others .. here are a few things that come to mind to cause dual-booting frustration for many of these others:

Netflix, PlayOnLinux with DX10/11 Support !!!, Quicken (for Taxes), Music Editing Software comparable to Windows Options, a Definitively Awesome Picture Viewer/Manager

I would find it helpful if Garmin and Tom Tom devices could be updated via Linux. As it stands now the only reason I kept W7 on a netbook was for this purpose. The W7 netbook is now massively bricked with viruses that I can't resolve so I would either have to purchase a W10 cloudbook for just this purpose (which I did and am sending back) or get a friend to make the map updates. I don't know why anyone would mess around with Windows if they didn't absolutely have to. Linux, Chrome and Android make computing user friendly for us simple minds.

Solidworks (Catia) or Solidedge. I tried FreeCad but it's too far behind.