Thanks for this, maybe I’ll weigh in there myself later. 
To me it sounds like LightBurn is stuck on this bizarre idea that they need to do something to make every single rando user 100% happy, when all they need to do is pick one or two distribution methods and be done with it. There’s also automation, I would imagine.
Saying that you need to support every possible distribution method to “support Linux” is like saying you need an exe installer, an msi installer, a standalone/portable version, and a software store auto-updating version to minimally “support Windows”.
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This post by rcxb reads like a knockout blow against their strange reasoning.
It’s good to disagree, I want my opinions challenged so I can improve them if they’re flawed.
This “cohesion” is the kind of thing Mac users obsess over and I don’t know if I even fully understand what they’re so hypnotized and amazed about. It sounds like marketing frivolity, not a crucial feature. Maybe someone can enlighten me as to what that means. If the claim is going to be “it all just works and there’s never a problem”, I’m pretty sure that’s nonsense because all tech has problems.
Almost nothing in life is completely “cohesive”. Does everything in your house in every room go together perfectly, looking like a staged photo of a house up for sale? Most of us aren’t willing to sacrifice the freedom to choose what we put in our house to ensure that everything matches perfectly. It’s kind of the nature of open source and freedom to not look like they were designed and built by the one boring soviet manufacturer… assuming I am not misinterpreting.