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Re: Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?

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beAbU wrote: post #124
baq wrote: post #120

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BetterDisplay is $15 or so and it changes the equation from ’horrible’ to ‘good enough’. Still not as good as other OSes but at least you don’t have to buy an expensive monitor. Why Apple decided to not support low dpi is beyond me.

Every time someone complains about some rough edge or papercut on MacOS, someone always chimes in woth "there's this app that fixes it for $10". I find it astounding that this has somehow been normalized.

I don’t get to choose the platform my employer wants me to develop on, macOS it is. My wfh setup is on me; $15 is much cheaper than a $1000 5k display.

Apple doesn’t care as long as they move inventory, apparently.

Re: Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?

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Post by winecamera »

Leftium wrote: post #110
winecamera wrote: post #70

I'd love to use macOS, but macOS's font rendering on low DPI monitors (2560x1440) looks awful compared to Windows's font rendering. It's to the point that it's unusable for coding, so I just use Windows with WSL.

My 30-inch 2560x1440 external monitor looked fuzzy/blurry on MacOS until I forced HiDPI. (Mac mini) MacOS only offers HiDPI for certain resolutions. There is a free OSS program that unlocks HiDPI for other resolutions: https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay I just tried disabling HiDPI at 2560x1440, and it looks quite bad! With HiDPI, I'd say it looks similar (if not better) than Windows.

I'll have to give this a shot. Does it reduce your overall desktop working area?

Re: Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?

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Post by Leftium »

winecamera wrote: post #135
Leftium wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My 30-inch 2560x1440 external monitor looked fuzzy/blurry on MacOS until I forced HiDPI. (Mac mini) MacOS only offers HiDPI for certain resolutions. There is a free OSS program that unlocks HiDPI for other resolutions: https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay I just tried disabling HiDPI at 2560x1440, and it looks quite bad! With HiDPI, I'd say it looks similar (if not better) than Windows.

I'll have to give this a shot. Does it reduce your overall desktop working area?

The layout/pixel density remains exactly the same (you can also get better scaled resolutions, if desired). (Most) things just look less fuzzy.

It's hard to find good before/after shots. The difference is much more dramatic in real life:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/10oy6xo/i_use_switchre...

- https://youtu.be/eyckJiws_30

Re: Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?

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howdyhowdy123 wrote: post #59

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Please don't sneer at the community. The HN audience disproportionately includes experienced programmers, data scientists, machine learning experts, sysadmins, other advanced tech professionals, power users and hacker types who like to be able to control and customize their tools. It's not surprising that Linux and macOS are more popular here than in mainstream society. However it's not the HN way to be arrogant or elitist against the broader population. Sure, it happens but it's against the guidelines and we penalize accounts that act that way. So we just don't want any of this kind of rhetoric here, whether it's "pro" or "anti" the HN community and its ways.

If you'd take a moment to read the guidelines and make an effort to observe them in future we'd be grateful. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?

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tomhow wrote: post #137
howdyhowdy123 wrote: post #59

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Please don't sneer at the community. The HN audience disproportionately includes experienced programmers, data scientists, machine learning experts, sysadmins, other advanced tech professionals, power users and hacker types who like to be able to control and customize their tools. It's not surprising that Linux and macOS are more popular here than in mainstream society. However it's not the HN way to be arrogant or e…

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Re: Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?

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howdyhowdy123 wrote: post #138
tomhow wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please don't sneer at the community. The HN audience disproportionately includes experienced programmers, data scientists, machine learning experts, sysadmins, other advanced tech professionals, power users and hacker types who like to be able to control and customize their tools. It's not surprising that Linux and macOS are more popular here than in mainstream society. However it's not the HN way to be arrogant or e…

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Fine but we have to ban accounts that break the guidelines repeatedly. This applies to everyone equally.
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