I was having similar issues on Ubuntu with either Unity or Gnome (can't remember which). The high DPI resolution of the laptop screen made everything look reall

I was having similar issues on Ubuntu with either Unity or Gnome (can't remember which). The high DPI resolution of the laptop screen made everything look really small and everything I tried to do to scale up the size of things just didn't work well. Things didn't scale evenly, sometimes the text would be bigger but not the ui controls. On MacOS I've found the display scaling to just work as expected