Halmaka John thinks that 2008 is the year of the desktop.  I think he did a good job of describing the things that don't work well enough yet.  Hopefully this will serve as a call to arms not only to the open source community – who has been working really hard on this issue for a long time! – but also a call of arms to the hardware companies that could help.  Here are some of the things he listed that I think still need work:

• Plug and play video chips, networking hardware, storage devices, USB thumb drives, etc.
• Wireless support for all the common security protocols with a use model (turn it on and it works) that rivals Windows.

Note that the hardware companies could help with specs and hardware and allowing people to create open source drivers and software – they wouldn't necessarily need to do any coding or release any of their software as open source.  Here are some he listed as missing that I think are already there:

• A browser, e-mail client, office suite, photo editing tool and a GUI for setting configuration preferences.
• Stable and reliable.
• No command line required.  (Ok, maybe this one isn't quite there yet.)

I think he missed:

• Great power management tools.  Things like hibernating well triggered by actions like shutting the laptop.

What else do you think is missing?