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Ever since Linux support came out (2 years ago?), I go to check if they, finally, support “non-retina” “LoDPi” (a.k.a: a regular screen) yet, and sadly no :/
by eddythompson80 1y ago
Ever since Linux support came out (2 years ago?), I go to check if they, finally, support “non-retina” “LoDPi” (a.k.a: a regular screen) yet, and sadly no :/
- marton78 1y agoIt's an ugly workaround, but if you install BetterDisplay (it's a free tool) and set your LoDPI screen to HiDPI, text rendering looks good.
- jaoane 1y agoThey don’t support windows, they don’t support regular screens on Linux… are they a Mac shop basically?
- sien 1y agoThe unofficial builds for Windows are good. https://github.com/deevus/zed-windows-builds https://github.com/deevus/zed-windows-builds Installing the 'stable' build with scoop works a treat.
- avarun 1y agoMost startups are
- senko 1y agoUsing it with regular screen in Linux, works just fine.
- LoganDark 1y agoYes. Originally they were Mac-only, then they went open-source and the community added support for Linux and Windows, but AFAICT they've never invested in anything but Mac
- anthony-eid 1y agoThe core team built Linux support and we're starting to work on Windows as well
- lsllc 1y agoVia Scoop: scoop bucket add extras scoop install extras/zed It works really well on Windows, haven't had any problems, nor with any extensions.
- senko 1y agoUsing it daily on my 1920x1200 laptop screen in Linux and works just fine.
- sapiogram 1y agoAre you using dark mode? To me, text looks absolutely awful in light mode, but okay in dark mode. Still noticeably worse than any other editors, though.
- senko 1y agoThis may be it. I use it in dark mode and I am considerably less picky about font rendering than many people commenting on such threads. Combined, while I can see a difference if I look closely, it doesn't bother me.
- eddythompson80 1y agoLucky you. It's very blurry. For me I open any other text editor next to it and immediately realize where that headache was coming from.
- gkbrk 1y agoZed developers themselves acknowledge the blurry font issue [1], so either you just don't notice blurry fonts or 1920x1200 on a small laptop screen is HiDPI-enough to kinda hide the blurriness. My desktop monitor is 1920x1080. On my computer and display; Vim, Emacs and VSCode are all able to render their fonts crisply while Zed is a blurry mess. [1]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992
- sapiogram 1y agoIt's so incredibly frustrating. Text rendering is the primary feature of a code editor, but no one on the Zed team seems to use a non-retina screen. Github issue for context: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992
- jen20 1y ago> but no one on the Zed team seems to use a non-retina screen This is not that surprising to me. Surely no-one wants to spend their day looking at the pixels?
- badsectoracula 1y agoI like looking at pixels as long as those pixels look good. Zed's pixels look awful.
- haiku2077 1y agoIf nice monitors were free, sure. Sadly nice monitors cost money. When I worked office jobs, hidpi displays were rarely available.
- eddythompson80 1y agoAnd do what the the few devices with perfectly fine 1080 or 1440p displays? Just throw them away? My laptop display is fine. My desktop's 1440p is blurry, any external display at the office is blurry. So what? use Zed on my laptop when I'm using the built-in display, then switch editors if I'm switching monitors?
- colonial 1y agoI can't remember the last time I touched a hi-DPI display. They really aren't that common still, even in technical office environments - regular 1440p or 4K ~150 PPI displays work just fine. E: Actually, I suppose my Samsung counts. But the point stands w.r.t. "real computer" displays.