android didn't gain official mutliple on screen windows until relatively recently, and even so they're still only in some fixed sizes. It also helps that any ch

android didn't gain official mutliple on screen windows until relatively recently, and even so they're still only in some fixed sizes. It also helps that any changes are tied to released by one company (google), while the linux stack is made up of stuff by tons of differnet people with different moving parts, and then distributed at various versions by various people on various distributions at different release cadences. There's no one group controlling any of this A sibling comment also mentioned hardware. There's certainly a lot less driver and hardware variance as well. When it comes to chromeOS, I think they are switching to a wayland compositor, and it'll be a lot easier for them because there they control everything.