Not if the Apps aren’t prepared for that.
I have some Apps that can scale Icons only by even numbers like
50%, 100%, 200% … while I would prefer 175% scaling on my 24" 4K.
I gave up. 200% for now and wasted space and content.
That’s more a problem with the developers not wanting to support fractional scaling in their app’s UI for whatever reason, rather than one with Windows itself.
Win 10 Telemetry is annoying (or a deal breaker), you can’t get around
from pulling out any of their Win3.11 Settings dialogs from time to time,
Virtual Desktops or (3rd party “Preview”) doesn’t work as well as on Mac
and unlimited small issues that don’t work as user centric as on Mac.
And for everything you need to find, install and care of a 3rd party App.
From that perspective I would still prefer Linux with all its limitations
over Windows.
It is just that any (even ancient) 3D Software runs fine on Windows
and you have unlimited (and nowadays reasonable) hardware choice.
Pity,
I like the Windows 10 (-only) GUI and fonts at least as Mac GUI.
(I do not need the round macOS corners, I like sharp corners)
Windows is more stable or reliable to me than Linux in long term.
Windows could be so great if they would care about users needs
and details. Unfortunately they have quite different targets.
But it seems to work better on Mac which seems to just fool the Apps to
appear in 100% scale, on any resolution of choice (?)
That’s due to the weird way Macs handle display scaling, isn’t it? Downsampling to get the desired results?
I always thought it was something of a good idea and bad idea. Good in the sense that it scales everything accordingly, and looks good, but bad in that it’s having to render your desktop at overly high resolutions if you want more density.
Also, I kinda like the rounded window corners. Dunno why. It doesn’t add any important functionality or anything, but…you know, it looks neat.
If you have a weak GPU like MacBooks with internal graphics,
it may be a problem for uneven scaling as macOS internally
may push up the resolution 3 times to scale down to final
(sharp) display resolution.
Some friends weren’t able to drive their external 4k monitors
therefore, at resolution of choice.
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You forgot the registry in your list. Totally unreadable/unfixable for most users, easy to bloat and corrupt. That’s surely the worst part of Windows, with every other OS its possible to fix things yourself if you are handy with Google and the shell. Here all too often the only advice is just to ‘reinstall’.
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I’m not going to defend the registry, since it’s not exactly the most elegant thing in the world, but it’s also not that flaky.
In all the years I’ve used Windows, and all the years I’ve had people begging me for computer help, I think I’ve only had to go into the registry 4, 5 times, and only ever saw a corrupt registry once.
If you really want to find something worth picking on in Windows, talk about 10’s rare tendency to screw up your UEFI install, bricking your computer in the process. That did happen to me once, and it straight up pissed me off.
What you are referring to is “super resolution”: and it has to be enabled in your driver. The default behavior (for both macOS and windows) is the opposite.
If you have a 1440p display, the screen is rendered at 1440p, but at a scale of 1080p. This means that the size of icons/displays/menus are equivalent to that of a 1080p display, but its rendered at the quality of 1440p, so everything is crisp but at a usable size
Super resolution renders at a higher resolution (4k for example) then downsamples to 1080p. Super resolution should almost never be enabled unless you know what you’re doing. I have never run into an issue where super resolution was enabled by default
I have no clue how it really works but for me, it feels like,
Windows says App - scale to this resolutions the user asks for.
(which not every App may be able to do as expected)
Mac says App - our monitor resolution is 2560x1440
(use it 1:1)
and scales that resolution up to n-times the actual screen
resolution, to damp it back down even on to screen resolution.
In that special case it was something about rendering 6000+ wide
to damp it down on 4k Monitor to a desired 3000+ resolution,
which in this case was too much for the integrated graphics for
a second Monitor.
I may be completely wrong though.
I also did not experience much trouble with Registry in the past.
Windows for me felt always quite stable and you can reliably
work with it.
But as soon as I switched to Mac I immediately recognized so much
nice details that made so much fun. (I will never forget that first time)
Like in Apple Mail, when you drag a Mail over your Folders,
the Folders will expand - like on Windows (Thunderbird) too.
But when you moved your Mail - it will collapse the folders
back to the state before.
Or Quicklook and all these factory delivered Apps that do your
peripheral tasks (much better than former special Apps for me)
and there is no more need to install them or care about updates
anymore. it just works. And all the small Software I don’t find for
Windows, like HBCI Banking, App/File Tracking and Invoices
for Freelancers, Time Machine or bootable backups with CCC.
From starting Windows and first watching my Virus Scanner to update
and doing all kind of Network with manual IP Adress to not even care
about OS X at all anymore and even just upgrading the same installation
over and over for years.
This made it so hard for the last decade on Mac with missing Hardware
offers and degrading macOS. While you were sure that you don’t really
want to leave this ecosystem if there is any small hope to stay.
Thank god there is hope for Hardware again and, while not perfect,
also hope for macOS in the near future, again.
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I tend to think of Windows as the workhorse OS these days. It ain’t pretty, and sometimes it can get a little stubborn, but it does whatever job you need it to.
Yeah, I can use Windows without complaint. Everything supports it, and it rarely ever gives me any problems. Even with the M1’s out, showing themselves to be incredible little machines, I’m still tempted to stick to Windows because, well, I don’t hate it, and it’s where all my stuff is.
…it’s just that the grass really is greener over in Apple Land.
Both macOS and windows do the same thing
Render something at 1440p, but at 1.5 the scale. This means that everything is 1.5 as big, but the same resolution. However, when you display it on a 1440p display, it likes just fine.
The key difference is that macOS is just more consistent and accurate with its display rendering. Windows can handle HiDPI displays just fine, its just some things come out worse than others
Although I find macOS much more polished than macOS, these days windows has gotten a lot better. I don’t have to run antivurus software on any of my devices. Windows defender works just fine. Even windows update, as instrusive as it is, updates everything seamlessly
Win10 compared to Win7 seriously got rock solid for me.
If I think back to the 90s oh man those OSs crashed a lot.
Honestly I am here with you - but I am also pretty careful not making silly mistakes to get viruses.
But it is true - it seems Windows Defender got pretty sufficient so you can ignore all the other anti virus bloat ware …
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Why is there so little OS in the world…
Yes, 3rd party Antivirus is history now.
MS Defender only here too.
It was just one example for things I cared about,
before switching to Mac.
Linux :). If I don’t need windows or macOS (for cad software or because m1) then I use linux
Upsides:
No bloatware
Open Source
Power efficient, its close to impossible to get virus’s
Command-line oriented
Downsides:
Its linux
You have to use wine to run some apps
Some apps won’t run at all
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I am getting a bit bored about the non existing announcements of M(more) chips.
How many years do I suffer now from Apple’s missing hardware ?
from 2012 …
And how many years Tim Cooks announced Great Things been stuck inside
his Pipeline ? Since 2017 ?
And 6 month later we still stick to M1 devices. It is only 11,5 months until the
ARM transitions is said to be finalized.
Do I have to stay with my M1 Mini for a whole year ?
I know what you mean but them announcing something at WWDC was wishful thinking.
I don’t think the semiconductor shortage is helping things.
However always thought sometime between September and November is the more realistic timeframe.
Might even be Macbooks, new mini and new iMac then.