Developed cleanly and cohesively with the desktop in mind. Thus, working better at that goal. No nonsense, just a stable package for the end-user to build upon. Desktop BSD / GNU+Linux is built on the backs of dysfunctional hobbyists and corporations, all with juxtaposing ideals, and it shows. Everything on desktop GNU+Linux has a flurry of under-baked (Cosmic), buggy (KrashDE), deprecated (most xorg DE/WMs in general pre-2010) projects all of which having their own respective issues behind the scenes with drama, misdirected resources, feature-creep and so on and so forth. Beyond XFCE, I don't think there's a single DE without major drama. Qt vs GTK. Flatpak vs AppImage. Pulseaudio vs Pipewire vs ALSA. I could go on and on with software, Rust, Wayland, SystemD and so on and so forth.