Sigh! --I've said it before and I'll say it again: I know choice is great and all that but, fer feck's sake, why can't the "Linux world" [for want of a better phrase] get their heads round the fact that the problem with Linux is not a lack of alternate file managers, preference panels, installer screen animations or window dressing for the software store.... but the fact that the software store itself is glaringly empty.<p>I'm not a Linux hater. I use it on all my servers, my media centre and one of my desktops. I'd love to use it as my daily driver,as I loathe Apple and Microsoft. But, when I need to get work done, I use OSX because the applications I need don't exist on Linux and their Linux equivalents are piss-poor.<p>I imagine many people who use Windows are in the same boat.<p>As regards the operating system [in my case OSX], I very occasionally open System Preferences to adjust a system setting. And I use the Finder to move the odd file around. But for my actual day to day work, I hardly rub up against the OS at all. It's just the utility that runs in the background and lets me access other "stuff" I need to work with in the applications I actually use.<p>Given the number of Linux variants that exist, there must be hundreds of talented Linux programmers out there. Why [seemingly] do none of them turn these talents to coming up with something that actually serves a purpose and fills an application gap --rather than endlessly re-inventing the same basic utility applications as already exist in the eleventy billion other Linux distros already out there?