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>Last time I tried, Linux could not do proper fractional scaling. I use 4k 27" displays and wish to use 1.5x scaling. macOS does it perfectly Depends on when y
by agilob 4y ago
>Last time I tried, Linux could not do proper fractional scaling. I use 4k 27" displays and wish to use 1.5x scaling. macOS does it perfectly
Depends on when you used it last time. On Linux we have two graphic systems, Xorg that doesn't support it, and Wayland that supports it out of box. Some distros switched to Wayland years ago, others still prefer Xorg as the default option, just change to Wayland during installation. I have 2 screens, each with different resolution and it's all fine.
>- Scroll inertia thing is fucked on Linux. Trackpads are not fun to use.
This is highly configurable on Plasma (KDE). I would say, too many possible options are given, but it's not as bad as on Windows where on one laptop double tab is double click, on another it means scroll-click. Plasma tries to fit everyone, but requires some turning like this.
>- I love clipboard managers, keeping history of clipboard, allowing search in previous entries etc. All solutions on Linux have been simply bad. And as far as I can tell, it is not even possible to properly do it on wayland.
We're back to Plasma, you can configure global clipboard and screen-independent clipboard, they would also share history and clipboard recorded is enabled on default.
>- Laptops do not sleep properly. I tried 2 different devices, more than once they heated up in my backpack. I can't have that.
This still suck very much, welcome to systemd integration layers that need to be done as root and you never know if it's working until you test it after a reboot.
- nagisa 4y agoWayland by itself does not* support fractional scaling out of the box, or at least it didn’t until November of 2022 when the prerequisite protocol extensions were merged to the project. And AFAIU clients (applications) still need to implement this protocol. Something like wxwidgets or old gtk versions probably won’t ever get to implementing it. * Some compositors employ some workarounds to achieve this, like the scaling tricks where they render to a larger buffer and then downscale it…
- withinboredom 4y agoA number of distros patched it in before it was merged… a long time ago. I’ve never had an issue with fractional scaling.
- larsonnn 4y agoFor some reason I can’t use wayland properly without bugs. I have two screens and sometimes the split horizontally for some reason or one screen just won’t work. I have no fancy setup. Most of the times Linux failed for me at Desktop things. So I Never used it for work despite server or container stuff. But now we have employees which have problems with Microsoft teams on Linux. At the problems may be the sound drivers. We a lot problems like that when we want to integrating Linux desktops in our enterprise environment. We are not using red hat or but have dedicated Linux computers.