Comment by thrdbndndn 2 days ago
Windows struggles even with native apps, as soon as you have monitors using different scaling settings.
I'm currently using a laptop (1920x1200, 125%) + external monitor (1920x1080, 100%) at work. The task manager has blurry text when putting in the external monitor. It is so bad.
Yep, I've been running a Windows laptop plugged into a pair of monitors for the past ten years at work, and across multiple laptops and from Windows 10 to 11, this has always been a problem. If I undock to do some work elsewhere and come back, I either have to live with a bunch of stuff now being blurry, or I need to re-launch all the affected programs.
I also have programs that bleed from one monitor onto another when maximized. AutoCAD is one offender that reliably does this -- if it's maximized, several pixels of its window will overlap the edge of the window on the adjacent screen. The bar I set for windows is pretty low, so I'm generally accepting of the jank I encounter in it vs Linux where I know any problem is likely something I can fix. Still, that one feels especially egregious.
It's not, here is a good article about it: https://gist.github.com/valinet/d66733e5f1398856bb21bda466a2...
(And a workaround).
Unfortunately I cannot modify registry at work so I have to live with it.
The new Windows 11 22H2 task manager?
Works just fine here (1920x1200 125%, 4K 150%, 1080p 100%).