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I'm not sure if 1900x1200 counts as hidpi. I have a 4K screen and I find the experience at native resolutions awful. Please install Dia and tell me about your w

I'm not sure if 1900x1200 counts as hidpi. I have a 4K screen and I find the experience at native resolutions awful. Please install Dia and tell me about your wonderful experiences with that program. Provided you can see any of the icons that is. Then tell me why the scaling isn't across the entire operating system but app specific. For stuff like this, Linux is bullshit. For many desktop usecases, Linux is bullshit. After a Skype call I need to kill the app else the process takes my CPU usage to 100%. Why? God knows. Probably the same reason my lock screen sometimes shows a password prompt when I press 'Esc' or 'Enter' and sometimes it requires me to click the mouse. Did I mention I spent the last nine months without a working microphone because the drivers for my new Thinkpad hadn't made their way into any major distribution?? Don't get me wrong. I love Linux. I'd take its broken ass over Windows any day of the week. But fuck me if I don't miss macOS.

Nursie 6y ago
> I'm not sure if 1080p counts as hidpi Pretty sure it doesn't :) That '1200p' screen I have certainly isn't in need of scaling for usability, but I have scaled it to match the size of screen elements on my 4k screen next to it. I've been going back and forth between MacOs and linux a lot lately, been using my Mac as my work laptop for the last couple of years, now that I'm working remotely 100% I figured I'd switch over to linux. Honestly not having much issue with it, bar the odd "Teams has decided it can't use your headset microphone, for reasons" error. Never even heard of Dia, let alone had call to use it. Just installed it and yes, for unknown reasons it doesn't seem to scale does it? Which is odd given it's presumably a gtk3 app and others do scale just fine. Looks like GIMP is another one that's not onboard yet. My daily use at the moment is IntelliJ, MS Teams, Skype, Firefox and Steam. I guess gedit, meld and a few other utilities. They all seem to be fine. Perhaps my relatively constrained set of requirements is why I'm happy with it.

Nursie 6y ago

> I'm not sure if 1080p counts as hidpi Pretty sure it doesn't :) That '1200p' screen I have certainly isn't in need of scaling for usability, but I have scaled it to match the size of screen elements on my 4k screen next to it. I've been going back and forth between MacOs and linux a lot lately, been using my Mac as my work laptop for the last couple of years, now that I'm working remotely 100% I figured I'd switch over to linux. Honestly not having much issue with it, bar the odd "Teams has decided it can't use your headset microphone, for reasons" error. Never even heard of Dia, let alone had call to use it. Just installed it and yes, for unknown reasons it doesn't seem to scale does it? Which is odd given it's presumably a gtk3 app and others do scale just fine. Looks like GIMP is another one that's not onboard yet. My daily use at the moment is IntelliJ, MS Teams, Skype, Firefox and Steam. I guess gedit, meld and a few other utilities. They all seem to be fine. Perhaps my relatively constrained set of requirements is why I'm happy with it.