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by grapeskin 1404 days ago
1 is preference.

2 is something I haven’t experienced. I guess maybe you’re using low resolution monitors? I find Windows to be incredibly blurry or text painfully sharp.

3 is something where I think the Mac mindset is to not really use full screen windows. I personally always have part of my desktop visible and most Mac users I’ve seen in the wild seem to do the same. Probably a consequence of the drag and drop mindset (which Windows is painful to use due to it doing the opposite of MacOS when it comes to drag and drop)

Enable the file path setting in your finder options. Super easy to navigate up then.

Disk images are nice in that usually they contain a drag and drop application install process, while windows often has some messy installer that leaves a trail of shit in its wake that’s sometimes impossible to fully remove when you’re trying to uninstall the program. But… I think a zip file would do all a disk image could and make more sense to people. Sometimes I do encounter zips, though.
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lastangryman 1404 days ago
Of course, it's all preference, I'm not making a case to say it's objectively bad, just I find it inferior.

The monitor is a ultrawide LG that works perfectly on windows. A Google for "blurry text external monitor MacBook Pro" turns up many people with the same issue (edit: it's a 1440p monitor)

Thanks for the finder tip, that will help.

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frou_dh 1404 days ago
> I'm not making a case to say it's objectively bad, just I find it inferior.

That's good, because usually in this kind of debate there's an undercurrent of "I've been using X for decades (and so know it inside out). When I try Y, anything that differs from X is objectively wrong"

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account-5 1404 days ago
Which is generally all the Mac os just works statements are in my experience.
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Darthy 1404 days ago
Maybe you're refering to subpixel rendering, which Windows still has, but has ben phased out on Mac with the introduction of retina displays? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering#OS_X
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cassianoleal 1404 days ago
I have an LG ultrawide with native res 3840x1600. Text is very blurry at that resolution though, so I use SwitchRes X to turn it down to the highest HiDPI resolution and it looks great.

I agree that it shouldn't be this way though, I'd have preferred to set the native res and be done with.

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