This seems like nitpicking to try and get a gotcha moment. Most normal people who think text is too small at an OS level want the whole display scaled, not just the text. They don’t know to ask for display scaling though, that isn’t a normal thing grandma knows about.
That's exactly how a "normal" user would ask such things.
I am not a Microsoft fan, or copilot, or even an A.I. fan, but the article seems to try too hard to find a problem here.
That's not like we don't have real examples around...
Why do you think most people want scalling overall being changed? It does not make sense to me. Contemporary UIs are wasting so much space, there is no reason to double everything. Just the small font you used inside those giant empty spaces.
I ran into this with VS Code. I have a giant monitor and wanted to increase the text side to avoid eye strain. I made the editor text bigger, but then struggled to see the text in the sidebar or other areas of the UI. Scaling for the app worked much better and it solved the problem everywhere in the app. It also still looks normal, increasing text size alone looked ridiculous, imo.
So your fist step didn't increase all text size, that's all, different from the OS setting that does
UI scaling would proportionally increase the size of a button. Text scaling would only increase the text in a button
Definitely not for me. I need larger text, not larger everything.
Even in your example issue is the font outside of editor.
I thought the new macOS settings app was bad, but Microsoft managed to make something even worse.
onetokeoverthe•2mo ago