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I agree. I couldn't use my 4k Dell monitor with anything but my mbp on OS X because I couldn't read much on Windows. Windows does not do display scaling very we

by 0xCMP 10y ago

I agree. I couldn't use my 4k Dell monitor with anything but my mbp on OS X because I couldn't read much on Windows. Windows does not do display scaling very well. I imagine 8k is not the easiest to use on Windows and there do not seem to be any Apple products with the right amount of power to use a display like this correctly (i.e. With the same power you'd put on a custom machine running Windows.).

hmottestad 10y ago
Great reason to use a Mac. It's a great example of how Apple just figured it out and made it "just work".
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lucaspiller 10y ago
Windows 10 works mostly ok for me (27" UHD), I just set the scaling to 175% and everything scales nicely (if a program doesn't fully support scaling then, it's usually scaled up but blurry). It's supposedly a per-monitor setting, but I haven't tried it. Linux is the real pain - most things only support integer scaling for UI elements and 200%/2x makes it feel a bit big to me.
- m0ngr31 10y ago
  The trick I've found for Linux with 4K is set it to 200% and then decrease the font size to .8 or .7.
- kuschku 10y ago
  > Linux is the real pain - most things only support integer scaling for UI elements and 200%/2x makes it feel a bit big to me. That’s actually only the fault of Gnome. All KDE and Qt programs support fractional DPI scaling – with a different ratio per screen. Don’t blame all Linux programs if it’s only Gnome that’s broken. The environment variable used is QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=DisplayPort-2=1.75;HDMI-A-0=1.08;
bitL 10y ago
Set manual scaling to 200% (I think by default you can only go up to 150%; works on Windows 7 as well!). That will make it retina-style and you are going to enjoy your 4k monitor even under Windows!
- 0xCMP 10y ago
  For everything that supports that in Windows you're correct. It's much better. I was doing this around Windows 8 (before the major update) and it's been improved a lot now in Windows 10 (esp the latest version I've heard). However, I'm not sure what macOS/OSX do, but it feels like they simply render whatever the app wants to render using many pixels instead of one. On Windows it feels like each app has the full control so each one needs to be updated to handle the DPI settings.
fumar 10y ago
I use a Dell 4K 24" monitor on a Surface Pro 3 with Windows 10 and rendering at 150% or 175% works great.

by 0xCMP 10y ago

hmottestad 10y ago

Great reason to use a Mac. It's a great example of how Apple just figured it out and made it "just work".

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lucaspiller 10y ago

Windows 10 works mostly ok for me (27" UHD), I just set the scaling to 175% and everything scales nicely (if a program doesn't fully support scaling then, it's usually scaled up but blurry). It's supposedly a per-monitor setting, but I haven't tried it. Linux is the real pain - most things only support integer scaling for UI elements and 200%/2x makes it feel a bit big to me.

m0ngr31 10y ago
The trick I've found for Linux with 4K is set it to 200% and then decrease the font size to .8 or .7.
kuschku 10y ago
> Linux is the real pain - most things only support integer scaling for UI elements and 200%/2x makes it feel a bit big to me. That’s actually only the fault of Gnome. All KDE and Qt programs support fractional DPI scaling – with a different ratio per screen. Don’t blame all Linux programs if it’s only Gnome that’s broken. The environment variable used is QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=DisplayPort-2=1.75;HDMI-A-0=1.08;

bitL 10y ago

Set manual scaling to 200% (I think by default you can only go up to 150%; works on Windows 7 as well!). That will make it retina-style and you are going to enjoy your 4k monitor even under Windows!

0xCMP 10y ago
For everything that supports that in Windows you're correct. It's much better. I was doing this around Windows 8 (before the major update) and it's been improved a lot now in Windows 10 (esp the latest version I've heard). However, I'm not sure what macOS/OSX do, but it feels like they simply render whatever the app wants to render using many pixels instead of one. On Windows it feels like each app has the full control so each one needs to be updated to handle the DPI settings.

fumar 10y ago

I use a Dell 4K 24" monitor on a Surface Pro 3 with Windows 10 and rendering at 150% or 175% works great.