> And that's for the core desktop (launcher + config apps). It gets worse with regular apps. Some being GTK and others KDE/QT based, some use bizarro or legacy

> And that's for the core desktop (launcher + config apps). It gets worse with regular apps. Some being GTK and others KDE/QT based, some use bizarro or legacy frameworks, some with custom cross-platform UIs that kind of match the look of just GTK apps usually, and so on. To be fair, I don't think Windows has had this advantage over Linux for over 20 years. Maybe macOS has, but in Windows, almost every application is built with a weird custom proprietary toolkit. Even Office and Visual Studio, Microsoft's flagship Windows programs, are. That desktop Linux only has two major toolkits is a blessing. With the rise of UWP and official Microsoft Electron apps like VS Code and Teams, it's not even clear what the look and feel of a native Windows program is supposed to be anymore.