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It’s effectively supersampling. The resulting image looks excellent.

There are several scenarios where it clearly doesn't look that good, and where Windows objectively does a much better job.

Most people (and companies) aren't willing to spend $1600 on Apple's 5K monitor, so they get a good 27" UHD monitor instead, and they soon realize macOS either gives you pixel perfect rendering at a 2x scale factor which corresponds to a ridiculously small 1920x1080 viewport, or a blurry 2560x1440 equivalent.

The 2560x1440 equivalent looks tack sharp on macOS. It renders at 5120x2880 and scales it down to native, as I said it’s effectively supersampling. I used this for years and never experienced a blurry image. I now run a 5k2k monitor, also at a fractional scale and again it looks excellent.

It very obviously is blurry, though. There's a reason so many people notice this issue, you're not going to be able to explain it away.

I have eyes, and recently updated subscription glasses, I can see what it looks like and it’s tack sharp.

Are you sure you aren’t confusing Window’s terrible font rendering with sharpness?

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