Yes, it is a monitor issue....
No. You are wrong, and you are ignoring what I've said.
I've pointed out errors and deficiencies in rendering, not preferences. it is not my preference to see dark pixels where there should be none, It is not my preference to see strings of dark pixels stringing away from individual characters. It is not my preference to see the individual pixels that make up 9pt characters. It is not my preference smears that make individual characters look like the ink ran before it dried.
I have installed both 7 and 8 several times. These deficiencies are apparent immediately.
I have asked several times on several Windows forums for assistance. Other than exhortations to use Cleartype (on by default and always adjusted, as I always mention and as always ignored), here are the usual inane and useless suggestions I am given:
-- buy high DPI monitors that do not yet actually exist,
-- throw out my $500 video card and keep buying new ones until I find one I like,
-- keep buying monitors until I find one that's better.
-- one poor fool told me to out a new card in the ThinkPad
-- get new eyeglasses (my vision is correcte to 20-20)
-- acknowledge that text looks bad and get used to it, like everyone else
The rambling anecdote about your friend is entirely inappropriate and unhelpful. I haven't "tweaked" anything because, as far as I can determine, there's nothing on offer to be tweaked,
But, if *you* know if Windows offers something other than Cleartype, the font smoothing option, and scaling as ways to change how text is displayed, please enlighten me.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Linux
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- PC/Desktop