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Whenever I see “programming monitor” I hope it’ll be another 5K+ high DPI display to compete with LG Ultrafine 5K, but here the horizontal resolution is <4000 p
by jitl 2y ago
Whenever I see “programming monitor” I hope it’ll be another 5K+ high DPI display to compete with LG Ultrafine 5K, but here the horizontal resolution is <4000 pixels. People go on about 120hz displays but I really think 5k is much more important for programming where reading and writing text is the whole game.
- aulin 2y agoReading and writing text is perfectly fine on a full-hd display if you have subpixel antialiasing. The only platform where 4k is barely enough is macos since they deliberately decided to remove subpixel hinting when they introduced hidpi displays.
- eknkc 2y agoI go blind when I look at a lower ppi display at this point. With or without subpixel AA. Weird how you get used to something.
- mrob 2y agoOr just disable antialiasing altogether. Generally you'll want to enable full hinting too. Quality depends on the font. I use the DejaVu fonts because they look good like this. I'd actually prefer bitmap fonts everywhere, but this is almost as good.
- wilsonnb3 2y ago5k is only necessary if you use a Mac IMO, because of MacOS's blurry fractional scaling. 4k at 27 inches is great on Windows and KDE with Wayland.