[pjmlp]

In the mid-90's, I had hope that GNU/Linux would eventually evolve into either GNOME or KDE as the main desktop environment with their frameworks filling the same role as Kits in OS X, BeOS, WinAPI.

Instead, it is not only the distributions, the whole desktop stacks keep being re-invented way more that what Apple or Microsoft have done thus far.

Then there are the whole set of GNOME and KDE forks from those not happy with those reboots.

Not a surprise that only ChromeOS and Android have managed to have stuck as desktop/mobile variants of Linux based OSes.

So those are the only "desktop" Linux that I ended up caring about.

[ldiracdelta]

I don't care about window transitions and compiz fusion or anything flashy about my window manager anymore. Xfce. Happy camper since 2015 as my main dev environment. Just run my programs please and provide some easy tools to position multiple windows.

[pjmlp]

You might not care, but everyone that doesn't want to be yet another Electron developer cares about the developer stack available across all desktops.

Since that is too much effort, you just get Electron apps instead.