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Would love to know the operating system that is 5 years ahead of MacOS! Clearly they must have revolutionary features.

mruts 7y ago
I dunno, DragonflyBSD?
swiley 7y ago
Linux desktop environments are you usually far ahead of anyone else in terms of actual innovation and not social tricks (like the way iMessage works.) They’re just usually not as sexy.
- thrwn_frthr_awy 7y ago
  Can you give any specific examples?
  - swiley 7y ago
    Workspaces and virtual desktops where the best for a long time. There’s a lot of very impressive stuff the KDE people do, I don’t use it because personally I prefer a ver very simple DE.
- hanniabu 7y ago
  Bring sexy, aka user friendly, is a large part of an OS in terms of GUI.
  - swiley 7y ago
    User friendliness and sexiness are different enough that I would actually consider them orthogonal.
- Bud 7y ago
  The "way iMessage works" is not a "social trick". End-to-end encryption, reliability, multimedia features, and a commitment to user privacy are not "social tricks".
diffeomorphism 7y ago
Do OSs have "revolutionary" features? Take MacOS from 5 years ago and compare it to today's, what revolutionary features did it get? Under "nice to have" and took forever for other OSs to get them: - TrueOS (I think that is the name of PCBSD now?) has lifepresever: snapshots, rollback etc. nicely integrated. Similarly for linux (snapper) or nixOS. - virtual desktops took forever to finally be included in windows. - MacOS continuity is a nice copy of kde connect. - Sidecar is a nice copy of astropad etc. - Things like Linux on DeX, whatever windows calls its implementation, MaruOS, Motorola Atrix... have been tried again and again, but are still not there yet. - Windows had pen support since XP, but the app ecosystem is basically only OneNote and a few art apps. In contrast apple has been dragging their feet forever before finally offering their pencil, but quickly got a much bigger ecosystem of apps tailored to it. Maybe 10X will finally change that, but I am not optimistic anymore.

I dunno, DragonflyBSD?

Linux desktop environments are you usually far ahead of anyone else in terms of actual innovation and not social tricks (like the way iMessage works.) They’re just usually not as sexy.

thrwn_frthr_awy 7y ago
Can you give any specific examples?
- swiley 7y ago
  Workspaces and virtual desktops where the best for a long time. There’s a lot of very impressive stuff the KDE people do, I don’t use it because personally I prefer a ver very simple DE.
hanniabu 7y ago
Bring sexy, aka user friendly, is a large part of an OS in terms of GUI.
- swiley 7y ago
  User friendliness and sexiness are different enough that I would actually consider them orthogonal.
Bud 7y ago
The "way iMessage works" is not a "social trick". End-to-end encryption, reliability, multimedia features, and a commitment to user privacy are not "social tricks".

diffeomorphism 7y ago

Do OSs have "revolutionary" features? Take MacOS from 5 years ago and compare it to today's, what revolutionary features did it get? Under "nice to have" and took forever for other OSs to get them: - TrueOS (I think that is the name of PCBSD now?) has lifepresever: snapshots, rollback etc. nicely integrated. Similarly for linux (snapper) or nixOS. - virtual desktops took forever to finally be included in windows. - MacOS continuity is a nice copy of kde connect. - Sidecar is a nice copy of astropad etc. - Things like Linux on DeX, whatever windows calls its implementation, MaruOS, Motorola Atrix... have been tried again and again, but are still not there yet. - Windows had pen support since XP, but the app ecosystem is basically only OneNote and a few art apps. In contrast apple has been dragging their feet forever before finally offering their pencil, but quickly got a much bigger ecosystem of apps tailored to it. Maybe 10X will finally change that, but I am not optimistic anymore.