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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 t
by 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.