Bash and the usual tools. Integrated off-host backup mechanisms past Apple's Time Machine, with bare-metal reinstall. A UI that wasn't so blasted proud of its

Bash and the usual tools. Integrated off-host backup mechanisms past Apple's Time Machine, with bare-metal reinstall. A UI that wasn't so blasted proud of itself when it successfully connected up a USB key disk, and reversing the current UI of excessive chatter for one of quiet; only tossing messages on actual errors. Transparent, integrated VM support, and with per-application VMs. Cross-box-portable disk installations and full software re-installation mechanisms. PostgreSQL and SQLite integrated. Open-source multi-platform management and deployment tools. Make me want to manage the Microsoft boxes from Microsoft boxes. Non-obfuscated data file formats, and a simple alternative to the current and over-grown Office suite; those tools can't decide if they're a text editor or a layout tool or a spreadsheet package or a database. (And yes, Windows and Office are two sides of the same coin.) That Microsoft management and Microsoft marketing folks shut up until they actually have something to show, rather than their usual model of unintended death of product interest by a thousand leaks. Stability is a given. No advertising is a given. Cleaning up the most fetid piles of legacy is a given. Fast install is a given. Fast upgrade is a given. Fast upgrades are a given. Fast roll-up patches are a given. And all of which runs contrary to the existing Microsoft and Office implementations and models in the current market. But I question why end-users are involved with Killer Features questions. Users classically stink at inventing Killer Features. All of what I've posted above are me to features. Not Killer Features. (In all honesty and not intending to slam Microsoft here, I can't identify the last killer feature that Microsoft came up. Which gets back to the 'good enough' comment.)