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I've found Fedora HiDPI support tolerable, but still weaker than Windows. As the article notes, fractional scale isn't do-able.. I have a 15" 4k laptop...2x isn

I've found Fedora HiDPI support tolerable, but still weaker than Windows. As the article notes, fractional scale isn't do-able.. I have a 15" 4k laptop...2x isn't quite right, as I can't quite fit a comfortably sized browser window alongside a comfortably wide terminal window. My ideal development environment has a browser and a term splitting the screen not quite in half (browser slightly bigger). The tiling features are weaker in Gnome than in Windows, now, as well (which is kinda sad, since tiling window managers originated on Linux/UNIX/BSD systems). I can drag to the side for each of my windows, and then drag the center bar to get just the right balance between browser size and terminal size. On Linux, I've got some kind of tiling plugin, but it requires me to specify window size by selecting from a 4x4 grid. So, more cumbersome to get my screen setup, and with less control; it's the perfect storm of poor UI: Harder to use while doing less. I'm still more productive in Linux than in Windows. Windows is a mess for developing across many languages...I've literally got five different Perl installations (that I know about), only one was intentionally installed, and they all fight with each other, and I never can get the path right to make all of my stuff Just Work. At least three different Pythons (I intentionally installed a Python 2.7 and a Python 3.x, but a third came along with some other package). The Python's are waging a turf war, too, and things never seem to work right. Also, multiple versions of gcc and development environment; only one actually works (probably due to paths, again). At least I only have one Ruby interpreter installed on the system (that I know of). But, at least the graphics drivers are solid, and the quality of the general Windows user experience has increased dramatically since I last used it for any work. Nonentheless, I love Fedora. It's my favorite desktop OS, and has been for many years. I've tried Ubuntu, but find I don't really agree with a lot of their choices. They seem to leap before thinking things through, sometimes, in an effort to be on the cutting edge. And, a lot of their "invented here" stuff is often inferior to the stuff the rest of the community has been working on.

lima 10y ago
Please try the text-scaling-factor trick I detailed above and report back. I'm curious. Try i3 as tiling WM. It might look intimidating at first, but it really improves productivity (and I say that as someone who refused to use one for far too long).
- SwellJoe 10y ago
  I've used i3 and xmonad in the past when I was having RSI issues, but found they impeded my productivity on some fronts, so when my RSI faded and I was able to mouse/touchpad again, I switched back to default Gnome (this was also around the time Gnome 3 came along, and I quite like Gnome 3 in most regards). I'm not really intimidated by tiling window managers, I just prefer a hybrid approach. There's a lot to like about the default Gnome experience. But, it may be worth another try. My way of interacting with my OS has changed a lot over the years; I really prefer to just install the distro and start using it. Very little customization, so that when I move to a different machine it's not a big bunch of customizations to bring over (that may or may not work on the next version of the distro, or whatever). But, not being able to split up my screen in exactly the way I want is definitely hindering my productivity, so maybe another round with tiling window managers is the way forward.

lima 10y ago

Please try the text-scaling-factor trick I detailed above and report back. I'm curious. Try i3 as tiling WM. It might look intimidating at first, but it really improves productivity (and I say that as someone who refused to use one for far too long).

SwellJoe 10y ago
I've used i3 and xmonad in the past when I was having RSI issues, but found they impeded my productivity on some fronts, so when my RSI faded and I was able to mouse/touchpad again, I switched back to default Gnome (this was also around the time Gnome 3 came along, and I quite like Gnome 3 in most regards). I'm not really intimidated by tiling window managers, I just prefer a hybrid approach. There's a lot to like about the default Gnome experience. But, it may be worth another try. My way of interacting with my OS has changed a lot over the years; I really prefer to just install the distro and start using it. Very little customization, so that when I move to a different machine it's not a big bunch of customizations to bring over (that may or may not work on the next version of the distro, or whatever). But, not being able to split up my screen in exactly the way I want is definitely hindering my productivity, so maybe another round with tiling window managers is the way forward.