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Re:macOS no longer allows changing wifi mac address by diffeomorphism on Monday October 07, 2019 @04:47AM (#21178700)
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.

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