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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by becarefulyo on Thursday February 02, 2017 @02:30PM (#13553691)
Apple uses grayscale font rendering too, not even pixel aligned. It looks nice because all of their devices are high DPI.
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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by 0xFFC on Thursday February 02, 2017 @02:43PM (#13553834)
Exactly, They know their hardware, and trying to optimize their software for their hardware.

Microsoft do know what hardware people use (in third world country I would say 99% of people do use low dpi monitor), but they changed and ruined people experience anyway. That is the main point, they don't care about existing user.

I bet if apple monitors was low-dpi monitor, apple would do everything they can to improve font rendering in their low-dpi monitors.

Do you see the mindset?

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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by Jenya_ on Friday February 03, 2017 @10:39AM (#13560501)
Unlike Windows 10, Mac OS X still supports subpixel font antialiasing (similar to ClearType in Windows 7), it is called LCD font smoothing there, e.g.: https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/os-x-yosemite-disable-lcd-font-...
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