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>So many apps are not DPI aware. I tried to use Windows on my laptop to run some ETL software, not because I was trying to get off of macOS but because that pa
by dkonofalski 7y ago
>So many apps are not DPI aware.
I tried to use Windows on my laptop to run some ETL software, not because I was trying to get off of macOS but because that particular tool only exists on Windows for right now, and running it on a 4K display or a HiDPI display makes it completely unusable. The fonts for the icons and everything else are so unbelievably tiny and using the scaling features just makes everything bigger. If Windows had a good way of dealing with apps that aren't HiDPI aware, it wouldn't be an issue but even the tools that they do have aren't consistent in how they fix the issue. Scaling the UI by 200% isn't a good fix.
- Avery3R 7y agoYou can change the scaling strategy in the app's compatibility settings
- dkonofalski 7y agoI know you can. It still doesn't handle a good chunk of applications correctly. Since Windows didn't implement UI scaling foundationally, there are a ton of apps that will scale fonts in the UI without scaling the rest of the UI or they'll scale the UI in addition to the fonts which leaves you with normal-sized fonts and giant UI toolbars/icons.