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Crucially, Apple usually copies it better. They drive niche or poorly implemented technologies and make them mainstream.

NeXTStep (September 18, 1989) predates Linux (September 17, 1991)and it's window managers. I'd suggest you also look at Apple's work on ARM processors. They were first to 64 bit in that space.

Apple was one the companies that created ARM as well.

”The company was founded in November 1990 as Advanced RISC Machines Ltd and structured as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) and VLSI Technology.”

What?!?

Modern Apple platforms are an evolution from NeXTSTEP.

From Linux? Are you sure about that?

Yes, there are several window managers that they copy from.

Such as?

What about all those Window managers that copied from NeXTSTEP?