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Re:Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface... by EugeneOZ on Monday December 12, 2016 @11:20AM (#13159175)
It really depends on DPI of your monitor. I have both MBPr and Windows PC with 4k 24'' monitor. On FullHD I can't look at Windows, on 4k it looks great (UI looks more sharp than in macOS, fonts looks almost as good as in macOS). And Linux fonts rendering is not even near - last time I saw it, it was completely awful, although it was on FullHD monitor, not 4k.
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Re:Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface... by trome on Monday December 12, 2016 @11:26AM (#13159247)
Seems just fine on my 1080p 22" monitor, or on this 26" 2560x1600 monitor beside it. Then again I'm a dirty Gnome user on Debian, so perhaps my vanilaness is saving me. But even a few years ago on my last A8 & 1080P 15.6" laptop it was fine, definitely much better than 1366 by potato.
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Re:Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface... by EugeneOZ on Monday December 12, 2016 @11:30AM (#13159277)
I'm sorry if my words were offensive for somebody - it's all questions of personal perception.
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Re:Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface... by trome on Monday December 12, 2016 @11:55AM (#13159525)
Hah, was being sarcastic with the whole dirty Gnome user bit, no worries!
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Re:Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface... by astrodust on Monday December 12, 2016 @11:53AM (#13159506)
On 4K a Windows machine looks tolerable, but I'd hold back from calling it "great". It's more like the deficiencies are less obvious.

Windows has long been indifferent to faithfully representing fonts, to accurately representing colors. They've always promoted readability at the cost of mangling fonts, and of performance.

The macOS rendering system has always been set up with high-DPI displays in mind, they were able to work out a lot of rendering problems on things like the iPhone and iPad before committing to the computer version of same.

Windows on a 4K display looks close to but not quite as good as a Mac on a 1440p display, it's just that stark.

This is all personal preference obviously, but having done a lot of design work I'm more easily irritated by little quirks.

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