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I mean back in the day when Gnome had desktop icons, Nautilus did draw those. So the file manager was, in fact, started before you could see your desktop. Windows did the same thing I'm pretty sure, I'm kind of surprised that the article seems to imply it doesn't anymore. Maybe it's now just sort of a component dll, and the fully featured file explorer loads a bunch more crap.
KDE, XFCE etc. would also need to do one of those things.
With Windows, Microsoft was facing an antitrust suit (back when those happened) for leveraging their monopoly position in the PC operating system market to force Internet Explorer upon everybody, so what they did is merge the file browser (including the Desktop) and Internet Explorer into a single thing so they could claim it is actually an essential component of the operating system. Whatever Nautilus was doing 20 years ago, it wasn't that stupid.
Having the desktop icons and the file manager view run the same code makes perfect sense. You would want both of those things to look and behave the same.
Putting a web browser into your file manager, on the other hand, is totally unnecessary. Those are completely different things.
Gnome never did integrate a web browser into Nautilus. KDE did though, not sure if that's still there. It was some modular thingy of course, so there's still some separation there. I'm assuming Microsoft also did it kinda like that, they just pretended it's totally integral in their legal defense. KDE did just because Windows did it, of course.
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Store the file manager in the BIOS ROMs