Linux

Maybe meta, but a linux installer for windows that works just like a normal installer on windows. You download the .exe, double click it, it opens a wizard you can walk though, and by the end of the process, after it reboots, you're in a linux distro.

You know what, it could also be for linux, when I think about it... not everybody wants to write on a flash drive, reboot, run through installation, reboot.

The original idea is that non-technical users don't know what an "OS" is. They might search for "windows alternative", "windows replacement", "linux installer" (if they heard of linux), and so on without knowing it's an OS. If they could download something that installed "the linux app" without having to know about partitions, flashing a USB stick, MBR vs UEFI, distros, etc. it could make things much much easier.

• distro: which flavor of linux would you like (as stable as possible)? gaming (bazzite), productivity (ubuntu), bleeding edge (debian sid?), design, development, expert, security, ...
• desktop environment: look and feel? more like MacOS (gnome), more like windows 7,8,10 (KDE), more like XP (LXDE, LXQt), Windows 98 feel (XfCE, ....)
• probably other things, but maybe that's all non-techies care about

The installer could have warnings for configurations e.g "you have an NVIDIA card $model, this has known issues with your display manager (Wayland), would you like to select automatic fix?".

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A basic, local text-to-speech app using home assistant's piper would be great. Feed it a document and have it read the document to you, highlighting along the way.

A simple intuitive whitelist/blacklist firewall with logging for both inputs and outputs. I shouldn't have to navigate NFT's complexity or write scripts simply to list all the websites I'm willing or unwilling to connect to and their port number. There are silly limitations on all the tools I've tried.

I use a whitelist because my code sucks, and PDF datasheets for hobbyist hardware projects can be super sketchy to download. I have somewhere around 600 entries on my list. It feels like an intentionally obfuscated/overcomplicated issue in OpenWRT and elsewhere from a user's perspective.

I really don't trust local LLM's overall now that they've been shown to have hidden vulnerabilities and would love to have an easier way to monitor an outputs log and sandbox really.

A text web browser that actually lets you log in to websites.

Afaik, there is no app to very easily generate GIFs.

• select images
• select duration
• select quality / size
• generate gif (avif?)

plus:

• optimized for smartphones

There is switcheroo which makes image conversion easily. It converts to gif as well but only 1 image to 1 gif, not 2 images to 1 gif.

It should be straight forward since image magick contains all neccessary commands for gif creation

Would it be possible to clone the snipping tool from windows?

GUI app to create/edit/config Samba shares.

Do you know what really doesn't exist?

A pure, HTML only, WYSIWYG text editor. Every text editor out there is either XML, JSON or Markdown based. HTML is the most widely adopted standard ever and is the best for storing content long term. People could write CSS themes, you could even add paged media support.

A wayland screen recorder. Not everyone needs a complex app like obs. Also, a jellyfin/emby front end maybe?

Torrent based software installs and updates, to reduce workloads on Linux servers

Real time midi sequencer for the trs-80 model 100

An actually good alternative to Notion for Linux.