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If you’ve got flawless eyes, then obviously native 4K is fine. If you want larger and blur-free text, get a Mac or stick to lower-res screens...

• basch 8y ago
  Windows has dpi scaling... Turn ClearType off
• noir_lord 8y ago
  Or do what I did on Linux and set font scaling to 1.5 and not worry about it one moment after. Eyes aren't perfect either fwiw.
  • alanfranz 8y ago
    1.5 fonts scaling worked decently on ubuntu 16.04, but needs magic on 18.04 . And there's no standard hidpi way for applications to work, so ymmv. Some apps won't understand your settings. So you'll tweak some env for them. Then some apps will double recognize your settings.
    • seba_dos1 8y ago
      Well, it Just Works™ on my out-of-box Plasma. The only things I needed to tune manually were git-gui and choosing a hidpi theme in GIMP.
      • alanfranz 8y ago
        > The only things I needed to tune manually were git-gui and choosing a hidpi theme in GIMP. So it doesn't just work. It works only for a subset of the applications, those that fall within a certain DE/GUI toolkit.
        • seba_dos1 8y ago
          Yes, it does. This is an equivalent of selecting "compatibility mode" for that one old Windows app you still use. Also, this is on X11. On Wayland you don't even have to do that, as non-hidpi aware apps get automatically scaled up. (and amusingly, just yesterday I had an occasion to test it truly out-of-the-box and turns out that things improved over past few years and now both GIMP and git-gui work just fine - and both are rendered in full resolution)
• shawnz 8y ago
  DPI scaling doesn't blur the text unless the app is not compatible with it.