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As someone who regularly uses a 15" MacBook Pro (for work) and a workstation desktop + Thinkpad X1 Extreme with Windows 10/several Linux distros (for hardware a

As someone who regularly uses a 15" MacBook Pro (for work) and a workstation desktop + Thinkpad X1 Extreme with Windows 10/several Linux distros (for hardware and software personal projects, respectively) with lots of expensive brand hardware for both laptops, I loathe them all with a passion. MacBooks get the hardware DPI consistency sort of right, but multimonitor support is still flaming garbage to the point where I have to run caffeine 24/7 and use rigid window manager layouts configured per scenario (coding at my desk, pair programming at someone else's desk, meeting, presentation, etc.) to be able to efficiently context switch between the modes and keep the screensaver from mutilating my layout. Windows gets the window layout consistency between monitor configurations mostly right if you ignore chrome and Electron but multi-DPI support is flaming garbage. Linux is completely hit or miss for me depending on the monitor and drivers I've got configured but in a desktop you can at least make Linux reliably not flaming garbage. I just now realized that my 20th anniversary with computing must have passed in the last few months and looking back, all I can remember is how much every operating system I've ever used has gotten in my way. /rant

tomc1985 7y ago
I have been running two 1440p displays on my Retina (on 150% scale) laptop and they've been playing nicely for as long as I've had this job. It works quite well for me, no need to run any special WM programs except for Divvy Similarly for grandparent post, VLC runs 100% fine on my 150% scaling Win10 laptop with a 4K screen These bugs must be somewhat transient...
- jamesgeck0 7y ago
  I dunno. I've got 150% scaling on my Surface Go with a 10 inch screen. The VLC UI is a mixture of partially scaled elements for me right now: https://imgur.com/a/1j4wWUd https://imgur.com/a/1j4wWUd There's a registry option to double the scaling of Qt widgets, but that makes everything too big.
zeta0134 7y ago
If you're willing to switch desktop environments, Cinnamon seems to at least consistently remember monitor layouts between different configurations. Mixed DPI is still garbage though; I think it's basically a poor underlying model with X11, but I'm no expert on the implementation.

tomc1985 7y ago

I have been running two 1440p displays on my Retina (on 150% scale) laptop and they've been playing nicely for as long as I've had this job. It works quite well for me, no need to run any special WM programs except for Divvy Similarly for grandparent post, VLC runs 100% fine on my 150% scaling Win10 laptop with a 4K screen These bugs must be somewhat transient...

jamesgeck0 7y ago
I dunno. I've got 150% scaling on my Surface Go with a 10 inch screen. The VLC UI is a mixture of partially scaled elements for me right now: https://imgur.com/a/1j4wWUd https://imgur.com/a/1j4wWUd There's a registry option to double the scaling of Qt widgets, but that makes everything too big.

zeta0134 7y ago

If you're willing to switch desktop environments, Cinnamon seems to at least consistently remember monitor layouts between different configurations. Mixed DPI is still garbage though; I think it's basically a poor underlying model with X11, but I'm no expert on the implementation.