Forty-some responses (they got split up) and nearly a month after initially asking for your Linux dreams, it is time to look at the most popular dreams made in 2008 for 2009.

Let me once again clarify: these are not meant to be realistic or probable. They are simply dreams. Every time I ask for dream submissions or discuss the top dreams, someone, invariably, has to point out that one of them is totally unrealistic. You have been warned.

And now, the most popular dreams for Linux are…

1. More Games! What were you expecting?
2. Better Hardware Support Seriously, what were you expecting?
3. More Software for Linux. Now that’s a shocker. Amazingly, the top request was Adobe software. Never heard that before. (</sarcasm>)
4. and finally… More Adoption of Linux Wow. Didn’t see that coming.

OK. So thre was nothing suprising on that list, but I think that makes a point. The most wanted things for Linux aren’t crazy, strange features, but simple compatibility issues. Really everything on this list comes down to the last one: more adoption of Linux. If more people adopted Linux there would be more software, better hardware support, and more games. The basic lesson here is that bringing more people to Linux matters and that the way to do that is to make Linux more user friendly and generally better. Those are not criticisms, just goals that every operating system should always strive for.

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