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Apple's PMs removed a feature that was very useful on my MBP: system font size adjustment. Now I must wear my glasses all the time I use the computer. This is not comfortable or fun. I could increase the display pixel size, but then everything looks like garbage when I do wear my glasses.

Apple has lost its user-focus. Its products will only get worse and worse. Fortunately, this creates opportunity for new companies.

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Coming from Linux with X11, I really can’t get used to fractional scaling for the same reasons you mention.

Sadly, the Linux world decided to go with Wayland, which explicitly copies this brain damage from MacOS.

MacOS implemented it for backwards compatibility reasons, not because it makes any technical sense. Linux + X11 started where MacOS wished it could be, but then they somehow forgot the history.

Anyway, I’m hoping one of the *BSD’s gives me another 10 years of being able to set the font size without blurring/fisher pricing everything else.

> Sadly, the Linux world decided to go with Wayland, which explicitly copies this brain damage from MacOS.

Linux being what it is X11 will stay around for a long time. There is no Wayland on my systems (nearly all Debian) and I have yet to find a reason for wanting to change that. We are legion, X11 will persevere.

It seems to still be there?

System Settings > Accessibility > Display > Text

Text Size and Menu Bar Size may allow you to do this adjustment?

You know, as a new Mac convert I've been looking for this, and could never find it (I guess I expected it to be in Displays, not Accessibility). Thanks!

One thing I have noticed is that Apple puts a lot more things in Accessibility, but they all are accessibility features when you think about them. (I especially noticed this with my Airpods Pro.) So instead of being the settings that people with major disabilities use, it's the settings that a lot of people use to make their computer more accessible to them, and by being in there they're more likely to find other settings that make their computer more accessible to them.

Which version of macOS are you using?

I'm using macOS Ventura 13.6.3 on a 2018 Macbook Pro and there is no "Text" section under "Settings > Accessibility > Display".

can confirm it exists on my mbp running 14.2.1

ditto on M2 Air, Sonoma 4.3.1 (23D60)

I don't know if you've tried 'scroll to zoom' https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchl779716b8/...

That was a huge plus to me as an occasional reading glasses user. Which I only discovered after about five years of mac useage.

> Apple has lost its user-focus. Its products will only get worse and worse. Fortunately, this creates opportunity for new companies.

Apple has never focused on the users, it was always their interpretation of what the user wanted.

For the most notorious example of this:

> You're holding it wrong

Using Apple means you adjust to what Apple decides the UX should be like. And if you do, you enjoy a mostly uniform interface with good vertical integration across devices.

If you can't or don't want to, then you shouldn't use Apple products. It's as simple as that

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