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Apple can only do this because they control their own hardware and have their fancy retina displays. Apple straight up does not support fractional scaling on displays they don't consider "retina". Retina displays are all 220 DPI or more, which is massive compared to many lower-cost non-Apple devices that do still need fractional scaling. Linux and Windows are not in this position.
It's really shitty of them to not expose this to the user directly through system preferences but you can specify custom resolutions (with "retina") using /Library/Displays/Contents/Resources/Overrides/ and an undocumented binary format. https://github.com/usr-sse2/RDM does that for you thankfully.