I have a regular 16:9 monitor, 2048x1152, in which I have Windows font scaling set at 150%.
The reason I prefer AA off (with fonts that were designed for it like Verdana or Bitstream Vera Sans Mono) is because I find it less tiring on the eyes. With AA off, the edges are all sharp and crisp, there's no blurriness. It looks closer to print. When AA is on, they look smeared and don't have clearly defined edges.
What is also a puzzler, as displays become increasingly higher resolution, now 4K and heading toward 8K, the need for AA is supposed to disappear. You don't need to fake smoothness at high pixel resolutions, yet many OSes are actually now making it harder to turn AA off.
It gets dumber.. OSes that used RGB subpixel AA (cleartype) because they're now on tablets and other devices that rotate, they can't count on the RGB stripe, so they stopped using RGB subpixel AA and went back to greyscale AA.
The reason I prefer AA off (with fonts that were designed for it like Verdana or Bitstream Vera Sans Mono) is because I find it less tiring on the eyes. With AA off, the edges are all sharp and crisp, there's no blurriness. It looks closer to print. When AA is on, they look smeared and don't have clearly defined edges.
What is also a puzzler, as displays become increasingly higher resolution, now 4K and heading toward 8K, the need for AA is supposed to disappear. You don't need to fake smoothness at high pixel resolutions, yet many OSes are actually now making it harder to turn AA off.
It gets dumber.. OSes that used RGB subpixel AA (cleartype) because they're now on tablets and other devices that rotate, they can't count on the RGB stripe, so they stopped using RGB subpixel AA and went back to greyscale AA.