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Text fuzziness has had nothing to do with your monitor ever since we've gone digital with HDMI and DVI

Linux & Windows generally use implementations of antialiasing that aren't so "fuzzy," so you could always ditch that Mac for something that won't forcibly abstract away the details for you

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It can still happen when different display panel pixel colour arrangements don't match subpixel rendering settings in software, though that'll usually happen with non-monitor displays like TVs.

True, though in practice I haven't noticed it to be nearly as obnoxious as Apple stuff trying to upscale at non-integer intervals

Yeah, I was completely surprised when I moved from Ubuntu 20.04 to MacBook Pro 14 on the very same Dell U3219Q: MacOS made text editing completely unpleasant.

Then I upgraded my son's laptop to Ubuntu 22.04 RC, and I was greeted with the same fuzziness. I hope that's only due to Wayland, I haven't tried out the X desktop when docked.

I'm using the U3219Q at 1:1 resolution (so 3800px wide) on BigSur and Monterey, and some display text is sharp at the beginning and end of the text block, but fuzzy in the middle. It's like there's an aliasing going on, where a text block that would be natively 100 px wide is shown at 99px or 100px.

It was better on previous versions, I think Mojave was the last good one.

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