Can Linux dominate the desktop market?

It's an exciting world out there, tech. wise.  Desktop PCs have got to the point, where they have more power than we can use, and more disk space than most of us can ever fill. Mobile devices are also incredibly powerful now - running 3D games at full frame rate, and delivering rich content at high speed.  For the purposes of most users, who only need a browser and email, the desktop machine is more or less defunct.  More and more people are switching to linux (some of them dont even know it - Mac users for example), and if the open source community could start colaborating efficiently, instead of all working on producing their own flavour of distro, then it could become much more popular.

Linux needs games, and it needs an office suite with a polished interface that invites people to use it (slag Microsoft all you want, but they have improved their Office UI hugely over the years). It sounds puerile, but the PC only really took off when the game players realised that it was superior to the games consoles - and of course Doom came out and changed everything. Linux now has good development tools, such as NetBeans, and Mono, so nothing should hold it back. So, come on open sourcers, stop working on those distros, and get cracking with some new games for linux if you want it to succeed!