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To this day High DPI displays don't work right everywhere. Even when they do, they don't look better than 1920x1080. Perhaps if I did a lot of image or video ed

To this day High DPI displays don't work right everywhere. Even when they do, they don't look better than 1920x1080. Perhaps if I did a lot of image or video editing I would feel different, but as a human being it just isn't that important.

scythe 4y ago
You're entitled to your opinion, of course. But I'm still not buying a laptop without one. It's like if I said I want chocolate ice cream and people always have to bring up that they don't like chocolate. It's a screen. I can see it. I'm quite confident that I want it.
- smoldesu 4y ago
  That's fine, I think the other comment is actually quite salient though: no matter what laptop you get, you're going to get a blurry screen. MacOS' scaling is based on downsampling, which wastes a lot of processing power and renders a supersampled image that scales down to an arbitrary resolution. This is how a lot of UI elements on MacOS don't really look that crisp despite being high-res. YMMV based on scaling settings, though. Windows gets the actual UI scaling side of things right, but the market of Windows laptops with hi-DPI displays is still quite small. Plus, Windows has a lot of bitmapped UI elements (particularly in old programs) that don't scale well. Linux... I love Linux, but display scaling is a lost cause. On x11, you can hack things to sorta work, and fractional scaling will be fairly usable, but on Wayland, you're forced to either pixel-double or face a litany of Wayland/scaling bugs. Some hardware/software combinations can get it working, but it's anything but consistent. So... you're certainly entitled to your choice of aesthetic preference, but all of these systems have flawed scaling implementation. I like high-res displays as much as the next guy, but not a single desktop was prepared to properly implement display scaling, and it shows.
_carbyau_ 4y ago
While this is true, I don't want humanity to simply give up and stay on 1080p forever. If anything, this issue arose precisely because people were too comfortable with the "one true screen res to rule them all" instead of properly scaling. And it was most frustrating to get phone and tablet screens MUCH better than a laptop or computer monitor! At this stage I think a 27" 4K screen is ideal. Use highres when you can - particularly for reading text with a High DPI-aware app - and use 1080p for the legacy-rendering stuff or games. Of course, laptop 4k screens are harder to find.

scythe 4y ago

You're entitled to your opinion, of course. But I'm still not buying a laptop without one. It's like if I said I want chocolate ice cream and people always have to bring up that they don't like chocolate. It's a screen. I can see it. I'm quite confident that I want it.

smoldesu 4y ago
That's fine, I think the other comment is actually quite salient though: no matter what laptop you get, you're going to get a blurry screen. MacOS' scaling is based on downsampling, which wastes a lot of processing power and renders a supersampled image that scales down to an arbitrary resolution. This is how a lot of UI elements on MacOS don't really look that crisp despite being high-res. YMMV based on scaling settings, though. Windows gets the actual UI scaling side of things right, but the market of Windows laptops with hi-DPI displays is still quite small. Plus, Windows has a lot of bitmapped UI elements (particularly in old programs) that don't scale well. Linux... I love Linux, but display scaling is a lost cause. On x11, you can hack things to sorta work, and fractional scaling will be fairly usable, but on Wayland, you're forced to either pixel-double or face a litany of Wayland/scaling bugs. Some hardware/software combinations can get it working, but it's anything but consistent. So... you're certainly entitled to your choice of aesthetic preference, but all of these systems have flawed scaling implementation. I like high-res displays as much as the next guy, but not a single desktop was prepared to properly implement display scaling, and it shows.

_carbyau_ 4y ago

While this is true, I don't want humanity to simply give up and stay on 1080p forever. If anything, this issue arose precisely because people were too comfortable with the "one true screen res to rule them all" instead of properly scaling. And it was most frustrating to get phone and tablet screens MUCH better than a laptop or computer monitor! At this stage I think a 27" 4K screen is ideal. Use highres when you can - particularly for reading text with a High DPI-aware app - and use 1080p for the legacy-rendering stuff or games. Of course, laptop 4k screens are harder to find.