I always hate this response. "I don't have this problem, so no one else does either." This all depends on what tools you use on a daily basis. I have some data tools that have scaling problems and they're unique depending on whether you use Windows Server or Windows 10/11. It's one of the cons of Windows having such great backwards compatibility. Some tools just aren't updated in basic ways despite receiving plenty of updates.
Sure, I'm not saying the problem is completely solved. But for most people using the nth percentile most used tools, the problem is solved. There will always be holdouts or legacy programs that are not HiDPI aware. But if you ask 100 people to list their 10 most used tools, I'd wager a bet that 95% of the unique entries on that list are not blurry when used scaled.
Man, what're you talking about? If you hook a Windows 10 machine up to a pair of monitors with different scaling percentages, then try to drag a Google Chrome window across them, you get sent straight to Resolution Hell. Even the first party apps that "work" go crazy for a while right after they're dragged across
I ended up having to buy a new monitor to work around the issue, since I couldn't handle having apps explode on me any more
"[M]ost used tools" are not the things that really annoy people. It's the "least used critical tools" -- the things that you absolutely need to do, but only once every few months. They often involve loading three layers of progressively older control panels.
This is a failure brought by the overreliance on data and telemetry to show what is "most used," without regard for what is most important.
yeah, Microsoft loves to give an inferior experience to 1% of its users in favor of polishing the experience for the 99%
The problem is that everyone is a member of a different 1%. "Oh, only one percent of users have that monitor setup" "Oh, only one percent of users run that app" "Oh, only one percent of users change that setting in any given month" "Oh, that app only crashes once per hundred uses"
If you do 100 things with your computer every month, and every one of them has a 1/100 chance of crapping out, you're looking at a 64% chance of something crapping out on you over the course of the month
If you do 100 things with your computer every month, and every one of them has a 1/100 chance of crapping out, you're looking at a 64% chance of something crapping out on you over the course of the month
Good point (1 - 0.99 ^ 100 ~= 0.63397), and this also relates to the idea that the higher the number of dimensions (in this case features used by a given user), the more volume there is away from the middle. Our spatial intuitions for distributions in two or three dimensions do not prepare us to handle distributions in 100 dimensions.
And that's what I'm saying is not the case. We have at least 10 Windows machines in my office and everyone has different scaling issues with different apps, even things as ubiquitous as Google Chrome. It's mostly an issue when there are multiple monitors of different resolutions. I have 2 of the exact same monitor so my issues only pop up with legacy software where the UI is still bitmap scaled but every person here has some kind of situation where Windows scaling just craps out.
The only apps that don't really have issues are Microsoft's apps. VNC and RDP mostly function correctly so that's the direct response to this main post but to say that it's "mostly solved" is not accurate, in my opinion. Searching Google for Windows HiDPI issues and filtering to the last year still yields support docs from Dell and other monitor manufacturers (from this year) that describe these issues.
