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I have a 4k, 17" laptop and I've concluded that it's largely pointless. Everything needs to be scaled up anyway to make it usable.

• matsemann 5y ago
  That scaling isn't like a zoom, though. It makes letters crisper, borders pixel perfect etc.
  • short12 5y ago
    This is an important distinction that some get fooled by. It's the same physical size when scales but is substantially more crisp
    • StillBored 5y ago
      Particularly if you disable subpixel anti-aliasing because the color fringing is distracting. I'm not so sure about 2k/3k screens @ 14" though. 1080p is about right for 1:1 scaling, but isn't sharp with smaller fonts. If one is going to scale the screen 2k definitely isn't enough to get that "smooth" look. I tend to run fedora/kde these days though, and the scaling there is pretty bulletproof @ 4k/14". Once in a while something will fail to scale properly, but its rare.
  • secondcoming 5y ago
    It's not worth the price premium, IMO. Maybe on a mac it's good. But Linux's font rendering is a shitshow when the same font can look totally different in different apps. Windows isn't too bad, but there are even parts of that that struggle with fnt rendering.