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> Terminal

Have they fixed font rendering yet? cmd.exe looks better on my laptop

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Have they fixed it spying on you? https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/terminal/issues/139

Windows is basically spyware at this point. The only way to win is to not play.

They probably meant conhost.exe (it gets you the regular console on Windows 11).

Fun fact: if you have Windows Terminal installed, it takes over `conhost.exe` and brings telemetry spying even to old apps which never had it before :D

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/commit/906edf7002b8ccf...

Are you referring to the pixel-level font smoothing they use by default (as opposed to CMD's subpixel-level font smoothing)?

You need to define the "antialiasingMode" key in the settings JSON for the default profile to hold the value "cleartype", rather than "grayscale" (which is the default value). I don't believe this is exposed in the GUI settings page.

Note that this only affects the actual terminal emulation area. The rest of the application will still be pixel-level font smoothed (so e.g. the tab titlebars, the settings, etc.).

I’ve never noticed any issues on any computer with it…

The first time I ever saw it, the text already looked better than cmd.exe via conhost.

https://imgur.com/a/qA1fr71

Something wrong with my eyes? Doesn't cmd.exe look smoother in this screenshot?

I find the Terminal more readable because the white seems brighter in your screenshots

The color is configurable for both.

Terminal looks far better.

My Terminal looks great! https://imgur.com/a/js6Yzxf

Looks like you’ve gone for something like the classic text mode 80x25?

More Perfect DOS with a CRT filter, to remind me of my handmedown MS DOS/Win95 PC from elementary school.

I agree. In those screenshots cmd looks better. Not sure what's up.

It's the lack of subpixel anti-aliasing (aka ClearType). For some reason it's being erased from a lot of modern software. It's why Windows >= 8 UWP apps and GNOME look so blurry.

It's just another example of why developers shouldn't be given the fanciest tech available (in this case: high DPI screens) so that they have to experience how actual users see their software.

cmd looks pixelated.

cmd.exe looks worse to me. Particularly because of the lack of padding on the left.

I've only used it through RDP on Wayland and it's been fine visually. Downloading it can be a challenge if you don't know where to look (Github, not Microsoft's App Store...)

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