[marrs]

> That fragmentation is one of the reasons why in the end you get an Electron app.

How so? I run Electron apps all the time. They behave like any other app.

> Most people don't want to spend hours tweaking Enlightenment themes, or keyboard shortcuts for tiled windows.

Most people don't want to run Linux. And I don't want to waste my free time experimenting with a critical desktop component.

BTW, remember those people who actually make Linux work for the rest of us? Many of them do want to do those things. It's how they got to be Linux contributors in the first place.

[pjmlp]

Indeed, because packing a browser with the application makes up for the missing pieces across all bazillion of desktop configurations, for everyone that isn't running either GNOME or KDE.

Oh do I remember, Red-Hat, Mandrake, IBM, Intel, Oracle, Google, Linaro,....

Slackware 2.0 was my first distribution.

[marrs]

Maybe your knowledge is out of date? Afaict, most (if not all) of the differences between desktop environments have been fixed by XDG. I don't run Gnome or KDE and everything on my desktop works just fine.