I get your point and I'd raise you the suite of Microsoft products:
- Word, PowerPoint, Excel, all one style
- Teams, different style
- Notepad, different style
- Paint, different style
That's just within the MS ecosystem, leave that ecosystem and you rapidly find the same style mess that you get on Linux. It's basically due to the many different GUI frameworks, not the OS itself, hell MS supplies a whole list of frameworks that look different from each other.
Even MacOS/iOS which are _really_ good at having a cohesive UI style suffer from this problem.
I'd argue that if this is a valid complaint with Linux DEs (be it GNOME/KDE/what have you) then it's an equally valid complaint for Windows.
- Word, PowerPoint, Excel, all one style - Teams, different style - Notepad, different style - Paint, different style
That's just within the MS ecosystem, leave that ecosystem and you rapidly find the same style mess that you get on Linux. It's basically due to the many different GUI frameworks, not the OS itself, hell MS supplies a whole list of frameworks that look different from each other.
Even MacOS/iOS which are _really_ good at having a cohesive UI style suffer from this problem.
I'd argue that if this is a valid complaint with Linux DEs (be it GNOME/KDE/what have you) then it's an equally valid complaint for Windows.