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Lots of errors in this article. This for example is blatantly wrong and has been wrong for an eternity: Current OS do not scale 4K, it means that if you plug a

Lots of errors in this article. This for example is blatantly wrong and has been wrong for an eternity: Current OS do not scale 4K, it means that if you plug a 4K display to a Chromebook or a macbook, it will use the highest DPI asset, in this case the 200% or @2x ones, and display them at normal ratio, making everything look good but tiny. Hypothetical example: If you plug a 12" 4K screen to a computer with a 12" hi-res screen (2x), everything will appear twice as small. Windows has literally had some degree of high-DPI support since 95, and has been able to adapt to that hypothetical example for years. All of Apple's devices handle it too even if you have to coax them a bit to understand your display geometry. I really don't know what the author is trying to convey there.

marcellus23 5y ago
Yep. macOS only supports 1x and 2x (maybe 3x?) natively, but will happily let you render at a higher-than-native res and scale down so you can approximate intermediate UI scales. And Windows seems to natively support vector rendering, with a large offering of different UI scales -- albeit 3rd party support for this is really hit or miss in my experience.