> But even still, the user had asked how to change the size of text, not the UI.

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.

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eviks 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

No, most of current UI has huge wasted whitespace, so just increasing the text size could be better for the grandma because of fewer "I can't see that section because all the extra whitespace pushed it off screen so now I have to scroll"

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BrouteMinou 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's what I thought.

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...

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watwut 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Are they? The reason for larger text for me is that I cant read it. It really does not mean I want who ui bigger, unless it is text being displayed.

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.

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al_borland 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Usually if the text is too small to read, the UI elements are too small to read as well.

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.

	▲	eviks 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> struggled to see the text in the sidebar or other areas of the UI. 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