Reliable hardware support. Especially on laptops - as far as I know it's still basically impossible to get battery life as good in Linux as in Windows/Mac.
Sane software distribution method that actually works reliably.
All settings accessible via the GUI. The terminal is still the default for most things. For example google how to disable SELinux (something most users should probably do). You have to edit /etc/selinux/config which is really quite complicated for "normal" users.

I think those are the main things. I think it would also help if KDE were the "default" desktop environment instead of Gnome. It's much better, with one caveat - they seem incapable of good visual design! Don't get me wrong, it's a lot better than when KDE 5 first came out, but there are still very obvious spacing issues, and Gnome never has those.

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

If you ever need to disable SELinux, your software distribution is trash, or you bought some unsupported piece of hardware with crap Linux drivers. Or you are writing kernel drivers and it's your test machine.

What the user really needs is to launch an app in a secure sandbox with two mouse clicks, not an easier way to edit SELinux rules. Linux software distributions focus too much on technology, but don't provide the finished user-facing solution with this technology, that's the problem #4.

[–] uawarebrah@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You should NOT disable SELinux. Where in the hell did you get the idea it’s a good idea for people to do? Quite the opposite, people should have ways to interact with the MAC system easily.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev -1 points 4 days ago

You should read this before jumping to "it's more security therefore it's better" conclusions:

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/selinux-unmanageable.html