Boot Camp font question

[ewx]

This image raises two issues:

1. Why does the Mac disk get an anti-aliased font and the Windows one a pixelated one?
2. Just how many fonts does a boot loader actually need?

Comments

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Why does the Mac disk get an anti-aliased font and the Windows one a pixelated one?

Because Windows deserves no better?

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Perhaps because it's got an arrow beneath it?

(If you select the Windows drive, does the font change?)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

No - the font is fixed, selection is indicated by arrow+highlighting only.

[gareth-rees.livejournal.com]

That's really quite witty: it appears to be using (or simulating?) the different typographical engines on each platform as a visual cue as to which is which.

[mjg59.livejournal.com]

The other weird thing is that by "Windows" it actually means "Non-EFI operating system" - Linux shows up as Windows as well.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I was wondering about putting a Linux install on some spare space on this system, actually. Maybe next weekend.

[lionsphil.livejournal.com]

I'd say the weirder thing there is that they assume all "non-EFI" is "Windows", yet don't seem to assume that all "Macintosh HD" is "OS X". You're being asked to pick between a device and an operating system.