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by vlindhol 1958 days ago
Funnily enough these "small" things are probably the biggest barrier for switching. I'm a long-time mac user and I asked for a Surface laptop at my new job to give me some variation. Luckily I was able to switch to a Macbook Pro after a year or so, not because of the mouse but because of Windows' awful font rendering.

I know, I know, some people prefer the Windows way of rendering, but I just get sad :) Great system otherwise, especially with WSL!
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goalieca 1958 days ago
Windows font rendering is just awful. It still feels so like 20 years ago with XP running cleartype on a low dpi monitor
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trinix912 1958 days ago
It's mostly a personal taste thing, but I find the macOS (and even Linux) font rendering superior to Windows, even on low-dpi panels below Full HD. On Windows, the letters are thin, have sharp edges etc. I've tried using the ClearType tuning utility but the results honestly aren't much better. The macOS system font also seems nicer.
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krakatau1 1958 days ago
I actually hate macos font rendering...Windows has way better fonts on 27" 2560x1440 or 24" 1920X1200 monitors

With work issued macbook pro I have 2 4k 24" monitors to get that retina clarity instead and they keep fans on all the time.

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