What I am trying to tell you is that 1:1 font rendering on macOS is simply not very good. This caused Apple to be the ass of jokes for a while. If you think tha

What I am trying to tell you is that 1:1 font rendering on macOS is simply not very good. This caused Apple to be the ass of jokes for a while. If you think that 1:1 rendering of common kanji is good, well, we’ll just have to agree to disagree. As for downsampling for fractional scale... I was only ever trying to demonstrate that it is not ideal, and not everyone wants it. I still (as I had said early in the thread) find it to be an acceptable tradeoff. And yeah, UI toolkits could switch off hinting and subpixel AA at 2x. I acknowledge that this would be logical anyways, since subpixel AA is not very useful at 2x. But honestly, as far as Apple typography goes, it’s all beside the point. This was in a thread where I was initially trying to demonstrate that doing it in Linux is hard for historical reasons. I believe I made that point. As for will it ever be done? Well, like I said, it has been done. Wayland supports what you are describing and more just fine, right now, and it works very well. (Full disclosure that most programs will actually just use fractional scale, but you can also round up to the next integral and the compositor will downsample as you would hope.) The actual hard problem is getting Wayland working for everyone, on their hardware and with their software. Progress is being made every year, but it’s been a long road. Until then, I just think it would make more sense for Elementary OS to work on more tractable problems with the Linux desktop.