It would definitely have a text editor that doesn't suck ass. (Note: This excludes emacs, xemacs, vim, gvim, kvim, nedit, gedit, kedit, scite, nano, pico, jed, and most other currently available linux text editors. Offer not valid with brainwashed people who actually like one of the aforementioned editors.)

Quote: Original post by ChaosEngine
Windows (sorry couldn't resist, but in my defence if anyone asked what they'd like in windows, someone would say linux)

This isn't as inflammatory as it sounds, actually. As I've mentioned before, Windows runs concurrent subsystems above the kernel and executive. Currently, the subsystems are Win32 and POSIX/Services for Unix, and it's quite possible that .NET is a subsystem in Longhorn. Implementing Linux on top of a beefed up POSIX/SFU subsystem is not infeasible.

Frankly, it'd be the best of most worlds (the sole exception being some of the features of OS X): complete hardware support, native Windows compatibility, OSS leverage.

Quote: Original post by Promit
It would definitely have a text editor that doesn't suck ass. (Note: This excludes emacs, xemacs, vim, gvim, kvim, nedit, gedit, kedit, scite, nano, pico, jed, and most other currently available linux text editors. Offer not valid with brainwashed people who actually like one of the aforementioned editors.)

Don't you mean "includes"? By your logic, that's a list of ones that suck... Or am I reading that wrong?

*head explodes from mismatch of logic*

The #1 thing I'd like to see included in a linux distro would be programs with a consistant and intuitive interface (both CLI and GUI). It would also be nice to have one of those i-node file systems adapted to be only case preserving instead of case sensitive. A VS alternative would be quite nice, and something like MSDN for the system's API would be handy. A general help file for using the system that is accessable anywhere would be fairly helpful.

In other words, it needs to be user friendly to computer newbies, linux newbies used to the Windows Way™, and everybody else.

It would have Windows.

Quote: Original post by furby100
It would have Windows.

Most distros do these days. Perhaps you meant that you'd like it to have the Microsoft Stamp of Approval™?

Working software for my TV Tuner. Slackware sort of works, but its crappy.

I thought about it a bit more, and got a bit bigger list than before.

One can always dream:
- no dependency hell
- no driver problems with new/proprietary hardware
- hardware drawn GUI
- standardized GUI (as already mentioned)
- better looking fonts
- a useful configuration utility
- no need for a basic user to ever compile anything
- ability to play games (be it because of developer linux support or easily set up emulation)

Existing programs:
- mysql
- apache
- php
- sshd
- telnet
- ssh
- irssi
- tinyfugue
- joe
- scp
- sftp
- firefox
- gaim
- azureus
- xmms
- xine
- xboard
- gcc
- make

Unexisting / unknown:
- a feature-rich graphical ftp program
- an Office suite that is actually good

Then there is of course stuff like bash, cron, etc, but I figured no need to mention those.

Quote: Original post by benryves

Quote: Original post by Promit
It would definitely have a text editor that doesn't suck ass. (Note: This excludes emacs, xemacs, vim, gvim, kvim, nedit, gedit, kedit, scite, nano, pico, jed, and most other currently available linux text editors. Offer not valid with brainwashed people who actually like one of the aforementioned editors.)

Don't you mean "includes"? By your logic, that's a list of ones that suck... Or am I reading that wrong?

*head explodes from mismatch of logic*

Perhaps it was a badly phrased sentence. All listed editors are unacceptable, i.e. they suck.

Oh and a standardised help system that can be used by all software, including IDEs (!!).

As Promit mentioned, a good text editor (excluding console ones) easy to use and with a simple and intuitive interface would be welcome.