Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th May 2006 13:53 UTC, submitted by IndigoJo
Alcibiades' recent article hit some sensitive nerves. One of our readers wrote a retort, stating: "The reader will notice that this author glosses over two important issues in attacking the Mac community. One of these is that Windows, at least since 95, has always been notorious for its reliability and security issues. He does not mention the 'Blue Screen of Death' even once. He does not mention the fact that, to run Windows reliably, you need anti-virus software which costs extra (unless it came bundled with the machine), and uses extra system resources. He does not mention the continual updates, which as time goes on, detract from the performance of Windows - or even that the last fresh Windows OS was released as long ago as 2001."
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2005-07-07
"I've had a look at the fonts on OS X and they're not better than Windows or Linux. The anti-aliased fonts in OS X can match the quality of anti-aliased fonts in Linux, but they still look fuzzy. I hate to admit it, because I'm not fan of Windows, but cleartype really does look the best even if Microsoft's default font sizes are small (they're not hard to make larger btw)."
Well, I look at OS X and XP all day long and I really do think that cleartype is pretty crappy. In my opinion it has got very little to do with font smoothing, it doesn't preserve character shape for example. But I could live with that, what's worse is that it badly messes up font spacing which impedes legibility and gets annoying quickly.
If you think OS X's smoothing algorithm makes text fuzzy, you should set it to 'light' for a change.
Oh, yeah, and nothing beats Linux of course. Everybody knows that