Glad to see the end to this saga.
Dunno if I could go back to 15" (NJ). MrsD. 'inherited' my 17" aperture-grill CRT, still beautifully sharp and colorful after ~12-years, which she drives at 1024x768 (I ran it at 1280x960).
Yeah my eyes are a bit confused at the moment. Having spent the last few months using an external monitor that's physically bigger but with lower resolution.
Hurts to look at big screen now because the fidelity is so low (vertical parts of black text often look red/orange because PIXELS).
Hurts to look at the small screen because although it's absolutely pin sharp, everything's bloody tiny!
Is this where Windows needs some sort of better DPI scaling?
I have DPI scaling turned on to make text readable on the wee screen. Would be nice if Windows handled it better and scaled all apps, rather than relying on apps to recognise that there's scaling and adapt to it. I'm sure it'll get better with time, though, especially with all the SYNERGIES of MULTI PLATFORM.
Not it's open to normal users, but Android handles this very well.
I've changed the LCD density settings on my last few phones. Default settings on my Nexus 5 make it feel like a Fisher Price phone. Changing the density value massively improves things.
When it's supported in applications it works well on Windows, but in order not to break legacy stuff it's presented as an option rather than a requirement to support it. Newer stuff pretty much handles it by default.
When it does break an app you can disable DPI scaling on a per-application basis in the compatibility settings - that's a much more preferable solution compared to the early days of Android where you just got told it no longer supported your device because your new phone had a different resolution screen.
Yeah I hate that multi-color font-smoothing shit. Unfortunately the alternative is usually worse.
... and the one from China which the tracking number said never got past security, and has since been refunded, has just turned up!
Given the original cable started to fail after barely 12 months I think I'll just keep hold if this one.