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> font rendering on your Linux look just as awesome as that on macOS, else read on to find out what beauty you have been missing. It's probably me, but font r
by hbogert 3y ago
> font rendering on your Linux look just as awesome as that on macOS, else read on to find out what beauty you have been missing.
It's probably me, but font rendering sucks on macos. The out-of-the-box experience on external screens which are not hidpi is worse than windows XP. I needed all kinds of small tools and the commandline to make MacOS not do a terrible job.
The macos forums have loads of complaints about this, of course almost all are answered with: "well, you got used to hi-dpi on your mac, that's how bad it looks on low-dpi screens, you should buy an thunderbolt/5k screen".
Btw, this used to be fine when i used MacOSX in ca 2012-2015. The subpixel hinting has explicitly been disabled since Mac mojave [1]
In short, the MacOS envy is highly misplaced.
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/8wpk18/macos_mojave_nukes_subpixel_antialiasing_making/ https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/8wpk18/macos_mojave_...
- massysett 3y agoIt's so bad that I gave up on using an old Macbook Pro with an external monitor. I use a cheap old Windows PC instead, which suffices for this particular use.
- musicale 3y agoWhenever I use macOS with a non-HiDPI display I miss the old subpixel rendering. And I also wish Terminal (not to mention XQuartz) rendered bitmap fonts properly (sharply) with antialiasing disabled. iTerm2 does it correctly, but it's sluggish compared to Terminal. Fortunately I use HiDPI 99.9% of the time. But I still wish they'd fix bitmap font rendering.