@cwebber how has GNU/Linux fragmentation gotten better? The most user-visible splits (packaging and desktops) have slowly fragmented more, not less. The only distro available for non-server uses to people not connected to the community (ie installed on devices by major vendors) is in the direction of Android (in the throw-over-the-wall and for the benefit of corporation that runs project senses), and "universal" package installer formats (or whatever flatpak, snap et al should be called) seem to be adding yet another layer of fragmentation, though maybe they could help with making it easy to run $Y on $X distro. I can think of one positive story semi-recently, but it's a small one: razor+lxde merger->lxqt.