I'm rather annoyed with operating systems and devices gaining ever larger, higher resolution screens and then scaling everything up so you don't gain anything by all that screen real estate. The old screenshot was designed for what, 17" screens, maybe even 20"? We've more than doubled our screen area yet we've lost work area in the process.
I get that some people need things to be bigger because their eyesight isn't as good as it used to be, but my 6.5" smartphone displayed less content on screen than its 5.5" predecessor when it came out of the box because of whitespace.
Just for a bit of nostalgia I've installed Windows XP and Visual Studio 2005 in a VM and I was blown away by how much code it fit on a screen despite the stacked toolbars everywhere. VS Code wastes major amounts of space for aesthetic reasons and Jetbrains is changing their use of screen real estate for the worse as well with the new theme.
More and more software is taking away the ability to claim back the ever growing whitespace. What once served as the huge, whitespacey standard is now labeled "compact". I know I can mess with scaling and CSS and UI themes and other stuff to bring down the bloat, but it's rather annoying that I have to do it in the first place.
I get that some people need things to be bigger because their eyesight isn't as good as it used to be, but my 6.5" smartphone displayed less content on screen than its 5.5" predecessor when it came out of the box because of whitespace.
Just for a bit of nostalgia I've installed Windows XP and Visual Studio 2005 in a VM and I was blown away by how much code it fit on a screen despite the stacked toolbars everywhere. VS Code wastes major amounts of space for aesthetic reasons and Jetbrains is changing their use of screen real estate for the worse as well with the new theme.
More and more software is taking away the ability to claim back the ever growing whitespace. What once served as the huge, whitespacey standard is now labeled "compact". I know I can mess with scaling and CSS and UI themes and other stuff to bring down the bloat, but it's rather annoying that I have to do it in the first place.