<story><title>Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?</title><text>For me, it was finding that I can use &amp;quot;Stacks&amp;quot; in Finder to clear desktop. For years, I was irritated with screenshots lying all over my desktop screen but didn&amp;#x27;t have the energy to sort them manually. When I found out Stacks, I was like ...</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>awinder</author><text>I’ve been using windows more recently since my personal Mac bit the dust and I’m trying to decide if there’s really that much reason to own a personal Mac.&lt;p&gt;So now I realize for years I’ve been using this silent feature of macs for years called “not totally jacked up font rendering”. I would never have imagined this was a feature, but apparently there is a collective insanity in windowsland where the quality of font rendering is not just a total and utter failure. So this is my new top Mac feature.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>com2kid</author><text>This is a holy war topic.&lt;p&gt;Some people, myself included, prefer how Windows render fonts. Others prefer MacOS.&lt;p&gt;From what I recall the last time this came up on HN, MacOS tries to render true to the font as if in a professional work flow that ends with a physical product. Windows aims for on screen legibility as it&amp;#x27;s primary goal.&lt;p&gt;Also remember that most Windows machines have a much lower DPI screen that what comes with or is hooked up to a Mac, so what is being optimized for there is also different.&lt;p&gt;Honestly hooked up to my large 1440p screen, MacOS&amp;#x27;s font rendering isn&amp;#x27;t &amp;#x2F;that&amp;#x2F; nice, it becomes a wash vs Windows, and on a 1080p laptop I&amp;#x27;ll take Windows don&amp;#x27;t rendering.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?</title><text>For me, it was finding that I can use &amp;quot;Stacks&amp;quot; in Finder to clear desktop. For years, I was irritated with screenshots lying all over my desktop screen but didn&amp;#x27;t have the energy to sort them manually. When I found out Stacks, I was like ...</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>awinder</author><text>I’ve been using windows more recently since my personal Mac bit the dust and I’m trying to decide if there’s really that much reason to own a personal Mac.&lt;p&gt;So now I realize for years I’ve been using this silent feature of macs for years called “not totally jacked up font rendering”. I would never have imagined this was a feature, but apparently there is a collective insanity in windowsland where the quality of font rendering is not just a total and utter failure. So this is my new top Mac feature.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>madhadron</author><text>My wife spent two years with a Surface Pro running Windows 10, and when it recently croaked we got her a new MacBook Pro. The degree of relief she had is remarkable.</text></comment>