Mac OS dropped the subpixel garbage (it really is garbage if you're at all sensitive to fringing or use anything other than a standard LCD) in favor of high pixel density screens. Sharp, readable text and zero color fringing. This is the way.
Mac OS dropped the subpixel garbage (it really is garbage if you're at all sensitive to fringing or use anything other than a standard LCD) in favor of high pixel density screens. Sharp, readable text and zero color fringing. This is the way.
Human eyes have higher spatial brightness resolution than spatial color resolution. At the cost of software complexity and mild computation overhead, a screen like a Bayer matrix or technology-appropriate similar subpixel layouts together with software that properly anti-aliases content by clamping brightness and color resolution separately to appropriate values ensuring the screen will remain capable of showing the limit frequency and that the two limits are sufficiently close to not disturb the eyes/viewer, will result in better viewing than if you lazily forcibly clamp the brightness and color resolution to the same value as Apple did.
If you have a non-"default" screen subpixel layout then you need to remain able to drive each subpixel individually from the computer and to have the antialiasing algorithm be aware of the specific arrangement you have.
And no, until you can point me to a sub-2000$ (and at that price and that poor contrast, a minimum of 120 Hz) 35~55" screen with at least 2500:1 static contrast, a vaguely 16:9 aspect ratio (though I'll accept 4:3 with the same pixel count and density and accordingly scaled dimensions), and at least 10k individually addressed (and anti-aliased onto by the font rendering) horizontal pixels, I'll happily stay with my 11520 horizontal (sub-)pixels that I paid about 700$ for (43", 5000:1 static contrast, 60Hz).
Linux had a very bad appearance in the past with a default configuration, and it still does not look good in most distributions, but that is not due to bad rendering algorithms, but it is due to the fact that the default free typefaces are usually not very good.
For several decades, the first thing that I have always done after installing Linux was to delete all default typefaces and replace them with some high-quality typefaces, most of which I have bought, with a couple taken from a Mac OS and a Windows that I had bought in the past (which I have stopped using many years ago, except for the few typefaces that I have kept from them).
Because of this policy, any text on my Linux computers has always looked much better than on any of the Windows or Mac OS computers that I have used at work.
I don't even have to edit anything on Windows now, and when I did a few years ago it was only on a clean install going through I think what was called cleartype config, you had a panel of 6 images/samples to choose from and after going through it all everything looked pretty damn perfect.
I wish I could download an OS update that gave me a high pixel screen! But, uhhh, that’s not how it works.
Restaurants spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on equipment so that their staff can work more efficiently. Why doesn't IT people take inspiration from them and get a bit better equipment. It's not a luxury item.
Not high enough pixel density causes which one of these again?
> Why doesn't IT people take inspiration from them and get a bit better equipment.
Are we talking about the same field where people are having a competition about who can build the most overpriced and obnoxious sounding keyboards imaginable?
Some IT people and computing enthusiasts are total consumers, I don't disagree. But it's also the only profession / serious hobby where it's common for people who are doing it all day insist on having the cheapest equipment, or half broken hardware. Not in the case with the commenter above, who I misunderstood in some way.
Philips have a very good one at 27 inches.
bwahaahaha, and you are talking about eye strain. Number one thing I do if I want to improve QoL for my eyes is getting a larger monitor so I could see more without looking like the last guy from the famous human evolution culminating in sitting in front of computer pic.