ORIGINAL: carlosponti
i dont disagree with you about the blame game either. I am just trying to say that small software companies are in the same boat as big software companies in stating that there isnt enough interest when there most certainly is interest.
They're not really in the same boat though. A big company like Adobe could probably afford to assign a team of people to port Photoshop to Linux, try to market it, discover that it's not profitable at this time, and just swallow the loss and carry on with their business. Or they could even keep supporting it at a loss for a few years until Linux usage picks up enough that it actually becomes profitable. A small business on the other hand could very easily bankrupt themselves if they did the same thing and it didn't turn out to be profitable in the short term. So I think if you're looking for companies to pressure into getting the Linux ball rolling, it makes more sense to focus on bigger companies that can afford to experiment more.
i stopped using my real flight G2 because i dropped dual booting and started using Ubuntu exclusively. and it wont work with wine either because of the crappy inter-controller or what ever that thing is called. it runs but doesnt detect the usb controller that comes with the software.
Have you tried Crossover from codeweavers.com? It's a commercial version of Wine which works a lot better. They've made it mostly painless to install Windows apps, and greatly improved USB and graphics support. I use it to run MS Office under Linux, and believe it or not, MS Word actually starts up faster than the native Linux version of OpenOffice Writer. I know they've also done work to make USB support better, so it might allow you use if it otherwise runs. codeweavers has a fully functional demo.