YOU CAN ENABLE SUBPIXEL ANTI-ALIASING if you want to.
But sure, keep on whining about it and ignore people telling you otherwise
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YOU CAN ENABLE SUBPIXEL ANTI-ALIASING if you want to.
But sure, keep on whining about it and ignore people telling you otherwise
I strongly disagree with your assessment. On a 15" 2018 MBP, and I've been using since the betas. More stable than Sierra or High Sierra for me. UI looks great, battery life is strong, no audio pops, no Safari hanging, and no choppy UI elements.
Agree with others: don't project your experience on the Apple community at large.
YOU CAN ENABLE SUBPIXEL ANTI-ALIASING if you want to.
But sure, keep on whining about it and ignore people telling you otherwise
Actually, you can't. You can increase the font weight to make it look better, but sub pixel anti-aliasing is officially gone (read the Update note - 2nd paragraph):
https://www.howtogeek.com/358596/how-to-fix-blurry-fonts-on-macos-mojave-with-subpixel-antialiasing/
I used this command in Terminal and after logging out and back in it looks much better:
defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO
I like a well done dark mode not this "dark mode" with a grey outline around windows and the dock, the greyish non translucent tones and the awful grey font on top of a dark grey texture which makes things unreadable.
I really am looking forward to Group FaceTime and hope it's in this version.
Also what is subpixel font rendering? does it make the font/text more sharp on non-retina displays?
Also what is subpixel font rendering? does it make the font/text more sharp on non-retina displays?
So because you don't have problems, it means we can dismiss whoever does?
That's totally fine if YOU don't like dark mode. But pretending like it's a bad UI that everyone dislikes is simply wrong.
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No, it means don't make blanket statements about issues when most are not having those issues. Certainly, report your issues (specifically to Apple, not just on a MacRumors forum), but realize not everyone is experiencing the same thing.
I simply stated my opinion, didn't say it's everyone elses opinion, did YOU read my first post or just follow the bandwagon?
I'd follow these steps instead, gives you some more options and a better explanation of what the commands are doing:
https://www.howtogeek.com/358596/how-to-fix-blurry-fonts-on-macos-mojave-with-subpixel-antialiasing/
YOU CAN ENABLE SUBPIXEL ANTI-ALIASING if you want to.
But sure, keep on whining about it and ignore people telling you otherwise
You cannot. Before Mojave and starting with 10.5 Leopard which first shipped Core Animation, subpixel rendering was only available for non-layer-backed views (i.e. ones rendered without Core Animation, i.e. without GPU assist). For example, the translucent menu bar introduced in Leopard and made mandatory in 10.10 Yosemite never had subpixel-rendered text.
Starting in Mojave, most (all?) stuff gets opted into layer backing automatically. For layer-backed views, Apple never bothered to implement subpixel rendering.
As a result of those factors, subpixel rendering is basically a thing of the past.
I'm also not whining about everything. But no, you cannot enable it. There's nothing to "enable"; the implementation just isn't there (in Core Animation).
Does it work because I keep reading mixed messages that it doesn't really return the feature.
Seriously, your first post:
"Worst release ever, Ugly UI, broken font readability, insane battery drains, even more choppy UI than HS, audio pops still present on the 2018 MBP’s, Safari hanging... what the hell Apple?"
Certainly comes across as a blanket statement and not your opinion.
Well that sucks. Pretty stupid for Apple to do this when products still sold as new that will have crappy rendering fonts. Ridiculous.
Then you interpreted it wrong. From my experience with Mac OS X this is by far the worst one. Period. Even Yosemite was more stable, even Lion!
Don't you think "Worst release ever, Ugly UI, broken font readability, insane battery drains, even more choppy UI than HS, audio pops still present on the 2018 MBP’s, Safari hanging... what the hell Apple?" is a bit of a stretch for "I simply stated my opinion"?
If it was the case then I'd say the OS has been awful for everyone and that there have been a lot of user complains.
According to a poster on Reddit, it works like subpixel antialiasing: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comm...ve_nukes_subpixel_antialiasing_making/e6ggllr
I'm not sure how to revert this command, maybe someone who knows more about Terminal commands than I can help. Fortunately it makes the fonts on my Apple Cinema Display look decent again.
There you go! Helps a lot when you add "from my experience" vs. just "worse release ever!"
It sucks that you're having a bad experience. Instead of complaining on these forums try reinstalling it to see if that helps. It certainly seems that most are not experiencing these issues - so there is something obviously glitchy on your end.
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Reversing the cmd is as simple as changing the last NO to a YES
It works on my MBA and Apple Cinema Display, I'm not sure about other configurations.
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Thanks, I will keep that in mind, just in case.