the entire browser engine needs to be bundled with each app No. It depends on the package manager. E.g: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/ele

the entire browser engine needs to be bundled with each app No. It depends on the package manager. E.g: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/electron/ https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/electron... A shared electron package used by a few different apps: see the "required by" column... As electron gets more popular, this will be the standard in Linux distributions (at least historically thats how dependencies handled there), Windows has different standard (self contained everything) so there it is the normal way - everybody already used to it for decades...