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Your defensiveness about your preferred OS blinds you to the point I'm trying to make. There's a reason that there's an entire page on the ArchWiki dedicated to
by AdmiralAsshat 10y ago
Your defensiveness about your preferred OS blinds you to the point I'm trying to make. There's a reason that there's an entire page on the ArchWiki dedicated to tweaking for HiDPI: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI
The fact is, it's not uniformly supported yet across Linux distros. Qt apps should theoretically be DPI-aware, but that's no guarantee either. See the various bugs filed against VLC, for instance: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/17823 https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/17823
If your goal is to prove that it can be done, then I'm sure you'd be perfectly happy with KDE or KaOS in order to prevent someone from downloading an app that might not be HiDPI compliant.
But for the average person, it might be more trouble than it's worth. Or they might not like KDE. In which case, my recommendation that it might be better to stick with 1080P for now still stands.
- reitanqild 10y agoThe problem IMO is you just say Linux isn't there yet. You state it like a fact. You say it with no reservation about this being a very high resolution display etc. In my opinion it wouldn't be less serious if I said Mac and Windows aren't really there yet because their package managers really doesn't compare to apt. Note: I don't say this. (At least not anymore : )
- tekklloneer 10y agoThe quality of a package manager is of much less importance to a desktop system user than the (un)readability display, I would think.
- shaan7 10y agoThat is a very dangerous statement tbh. In general it is much more important for any system to have its foundations robust.
- tekklloneer 10y agoA package management system is a convenience, not a requirement for desktop users. Chromebooks have one of the most robust and well built foundations I've ever seen, and the platform lacks any semblance of low level package management.
- stormbrew 10y agoFor HiDPI screens? Linux really truly isn't there yet. I say this as someone who has used almost entirely linux desktops and laptops for years, and not exclusively for a long time before that, and who finds nearly everything about a linux desktop better than the alternatives (yes, really). But my HiDPI laptop brings me frequent pain that I wasn't anticipating and it's not clear there's even a path forward to solving those problems in a consistent way. It's a whack-a-mole problem.
- lima 10y agoI got it working really well for me. Please share your list of annoyances, I want to help :)
- Jedd 10y agoOff the top of my head ... Many applications use toolkits that are unable / unwilling to scale. Arduino IDE is a good example - lots of bugs filed about it, some fixes ostensibly out there, but I've spent hours with no success -- the UI is unreadably tiny on my 3yo 3200x1800 laptop. You can tweak your desktop (I use KDE) and many (but not all) other applications to scale up, but as soon as you plug in a monitor with different characteristics (I frequently plug into a 22" 1600x1200 LCD) things are going to look horrendous on at least one of your screens. If you fix those two, I'll come up with some more. :)
- flukus 10y ago> Many applications use toolkits that are unable / unwilling to scale. Isn't that true on every platform?
- throwaway91111 10y agoWell, except Mac OS. There are ways to "forget" about scaling and render in pixel terms, but chances are your app already looks like shit if this applies to you. The native UI toolkit renders to points which are scaled pixels. Then there's image/graphic density; I can live with that.
- reitanqild 10y agoApologies: I reread your posts again and now I see that I interpreted your post out of context, you were specifically talking about high resolutions.