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Things like this make wary of moving to Windows. Most OS X apps didn't take long to become retina-ready. VLC is one of the most common Windows software and it

Things like this make wary of moving to Windows. Most OS X apps didn't take long to become retina-ready. VLC is one of the most common Windows software and it still took until 2018 for it to work correctly.

leetcrew 9y ago
there are still a lot of pain points if you have a 4K display. otherwise it's mostly fine.
- tillinghast 9y ago
  Genuinely curious—so non-4k high-DPI displays work fine then?
  - avtar 9y ago
    In my experience, yes. I tried an Dell XPS 15 for a few weeks and the 4K pain points were evident with apps like Audacity, Photoshop, and VLC. I ended up learning more about Apple's high-DPI approach: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/is-mac-retina-scaling-functionally-identical-to-windows-high-dpi.1811094/#post-20240965 https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/is-mac-retina-scaling-f... Laptops aside I've read that using a large enough display, at least 32", helps work around the Windows scaling issues. I haven't tried this yet.
- wolfgke 9y ago
  > there are still a lot of pain points if you have a 4K display. otherwise it's mostly fine. I personally love the rather small text and thus the giant amount of screen estate on my 27 inch 4K screen on Windows. But other people might have different preferences or visual acuity.
  - leetcrew 9y ago
    text size is easy enough to change; i do love how it renders on a 4K display though. im really talking about dpi scaling though. there are still a fair amount of apps I use frequently that don't do a good job. the recent qbittorrent update looks horrible for me. some electron apps have awkward proportions but are still usable.
- floatboth 9y ago
  I have a 28" 4K display (~150% UI scale), the vast majority of apps on Windows look perfect. Zero pain points.
  - avtar 9y ago
    One could argue that having to scale up to 150% is a pain point. If I'm switching to a 4K display I would want to use the maximum resolution at 100% scaling.
    - floatboth 9y ago
      How is it a pain point? It's literally a preference designed to work with HiDPI displays. And it was set to 150% automatically (because EDID contains info about the monitor's physical size). 100% on 28" looks tiny.

leetcrew 9y ago

there are still a lot of pain points if you have a 4K display. otherwise it's mostly fine.

tillinghast 9y ago
Genuinely curious—so non-4k high-DPI displays work fine then?
- avtar 9y ago
  In my experience, yes. I tried an Dell XPS 15 for a few weeks and the 4K pain points were evident with apps like Audacity, Photoshop, and VLC. I ended up learning more about Apple's high-DPI approach: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/is-mac-retina-scaling-functionally-identical-to-windows-high-dpi.1811094/#post-20240965 https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/is-mac-retina-scaling-f... Laptops aside I've read that using a large enough display, at least 32", helps work around the Windows scaling issues. I haven't tried this yet.
wolfgke 9y ago
> there are still a lot of pain points if you have a 4K display. otherwise it's mostly fine. I personally love the rather small text and thus the giant amount of screen estate on my 27 inch 4K screen on Windows. But other people might have different preferences or visual acuity.
- leetcrew 9y ago
  text size is easy enough to change; i do love how it renders on a 4K display though. im really talking about dpi scaling though. there are still a fair amount of apps I use frequently that don't do a good job. the recent qbittorrent update looks horrible for me. some electron apps have awkward proportions but are still usable.
floatboth 9y ago
I have a 28" 4K display (~150% UI scale), the vast majority of apps on Windows look perfect. Zero pain points.
- avtar 9y ago
  One could argue that having to scale up to 150% is a pain point. If I'm switching to a 4K display I would want to use the maximum resolution at 100% scaling.
  - floatboth 9y ago
    How is it a pain point? It's literally a preference designed to work with HiDPI displays. And it was set to 150% automatically (because EDID contains info about the monitor's physical size). 100% on 28" looks tiny.