| > eh, I really really disagree with this. In my experience more often than not this kind of changes breaks the app in various ways. What did break? > What if the app was using that shortcut for something else ? Now it's broken and can't be used anymore. Win+; is very unlikely to be used by anything and it is handled by the window proc of the EDIT window class, meaning that other stuff (e.g. accelerators, which are used to implement shortcuts) get to take first dibs. So if an application was using that shortcut it wouldn't reach the EDIT window proc anyway. It isn't any different than an application replacing the right click menu of a text field - the applications that do not do that (ie. most applications) get the new entries introduced in (IIRC) Vista about Unicode characters, etc and the (few) applications that replace it just do not get these options but their menus keep working. > Likewise for the hidpi thing that windows does, it's terrible - running the app at original resolution and applying a 2x nearest neighbor filter to the whole window would be better than that mess of "crisp" text with upscaled pixmaps that were never made for this resolution. Note that this is what Windows does by default, what i describe is something you can do manually. But personally i disagree, i'd rather have crisp text (which is what the majority of a window contains) and a few upscaled bitmaps than lowres everything. > I strongly believe that for old games / software it's better to use a VM / emulator for hardware of that game's era. I play a ton of old games and i completely disagree with this. VMs pretty much never work properly and have all tons of issues. Emulators are very slow. And above all, running games on modern hardware allows for higher resolution and maxing out graphics that was often impossible in original hardware (e.g. forcing 32bit color, antialiasing, anisotropic filtering, etc). Not to mention the potential for mods that improve parts of the game which would be impossible on original hardware. |