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by AndriyKunitsyn20 hours ago |
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upvoteby jacquesgt17 hours ago|
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While hinting is disabled for most fonts, there are some fonts that require hinting to render correctly. We have to support hinting for those fonts, and it was easier to make it secure by rewriting hinting in Swift than it would have been to comprehensively identify every font created by those foundries.
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upvoteby nomel20 hours ago|
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My last 1080p monitor was around 20 years ago. I have trouble comprehending people still use them regularly.
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upvoteby afavour20 hours ago|
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A very quick search yielded Dell selling 1080p laptops today:

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/dell-15-laptop/...

It is very, very common. Just not in the Mac world.

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upvoteby kbolino20 hours ago|
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It's also the corporate standard for generic cubicle workstation monitors, though it's unusual to find a Mac in such a place anyway.
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upvoteby import13 hours ago|
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It’s very common for the people who got their last monitor 8 years ago.
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upvoteby bigyabai12 hours ago|
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It's still the most common resolution for people using desktop monitors today, according to: https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/w...
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upvoteby SSLy8 hours ago|
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Also for gaming too: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

1920 x 1080 51.89%

2560 x 1440 21.20%

3840 x 2160 5.00%

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upvoteby carlosjobim7 hours ago|
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OS font rendering doesn't matter for gaming.
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upvoteby AndriyKunitsyn20 hours ago|
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People also use usable mice instead of touchpads, and they put the "ctrl" key where Apple thinks a useless "fn" should be. All kinds of things happen outside Apple world.

To me, it's more about what I'm used to. I have a perfectly fine several years-old monitor, so why should I throw it away?

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upvoteby yjftsjthsd-h13 hours ago|
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Then let me blow your mind:) One of my daily drivers is an ex-Chromebook at 1366x768. Granted, it's also physically smallish so the DPI isn't quite as low as a macbook would be with those pixels, but still. And that's a touch cramped but it's fine.
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upvoteby incanus7712 hours ago|
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I'm reading on that resolution right now! MacBook Air 11" running Linux that I use as a quick hacking/reading machine in bed.
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upvoteby 11 hours ago|
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upvoteby mschuster9119 hours ago|
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The problem is, as soon as you are not on a Mac but Linux or Windows, you are in for an awful, truly awful lot of pain. HiDPI support is a mess because even in the rare case applications are made with HiDPI in mind they are not tested on HiDPI machines.

Other way around, most Mac software is not tested how it behaves on inferior external monitors.

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upvoteby AndriyKunitsyn17 hours ago|
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What kind of windows programs are these? HiDPI is more than a decade old. A desktop application, no matter what OS it is, should always be tested with different scaling factors.
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upvoteby dcrazy3 hours ago|
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Oh my sweet summer child. Even software being written TODAY isn’t being tested in HiDPI. Win32 still makes it difficult.
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upvoteby AndriyKunitsyn2 hours ago|
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I’m not your child, and that’s false, it’s literally one key to change in the settings. That allows you to select the exact scaling factor, not macos’s “more text”/“less text”.
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upvoteby mschuster9112 hours ago|
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Ham radio software, both open-source and commercial, is a big thing, and so is many an in-house development in many businesses.
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upvoteby wmedrano4 hours ago|
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I've been fine with Linux/KDE. Even the fractional scaling support is decent.

Edit: Guess it depends on the app

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upvoteby TazeTSchnitzel20 hours ago|
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macOS has been drawing unhinted text for an eternity, and for those who can tolerate it on low-DPI screens, it's a great thing: the letter shapes look the same at all sizes, and the spacing between letters is consistent at all sizes.
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upvoteby bschwindHN18 hours ago|
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I'm a high DPI snob so I haven't used a low res monitor for work in forever, but isn't the entire point of font hinting to make the text more legible at smaller pixel grid sizes? Yes, of course the shapes are more consistent since the hinter isn't touching them, but isn't the end result just less legible text?
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upvoteby kccqzy18 hours ago|
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Hinting purposefully destroys letter shapes in exchange for crispness. People who like macOS style font rendering prioritize letter shapes faithful to the font designer more than crispness.

Whether good letter shapes is more legible or crisper text is more legible is basically subjective. In the 2000s before HiDPI became popular different people really thought one was more legible than the other and vice versa. HiDPI made this basically moot.

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upvoteby kbolino20 hours ago|
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I had this problem on the first Apple Silicon Mac Mini in 2020 so it's at least a little older than 2023.
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upvoteby carlosjobim7 hours ago|
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Retina displays were introduced more than a decade ago. Why should Apple still support outdated technology after such a long time?

If you work with text and fine UI elements, do yourself a favour and get proper tools for the job. Get an ergonomic mouse and a good keyboard while you're at it. In every other field professionals use high quality tools to do their jobs, IT shouldn't be any different.

A plumber has equipment worth tens of thousands of dollars, while IT professionals think it's outrageous to pay a few hundred for equipment which is undeniably an improvement.

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