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blitmap | 5 years ago

I want too much. I need a 4k oled display and I'd buy AMD so fast.

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djsumdog|5 years ago

I had a few 4k laptops and .. eh .. they're excessive. I have a 4k monitor I do my photo editing on and it makes a difference, but a 13-15" laptop screen is really too small for me to care.

blitmap|5 years ago

I'm often working out of a hotel and my laptop screen is my only screen. I can use the hotel TV but it's painful looking up-down-up-down. I can carry a portable external monitor but that becomes unmanageable when I need to pack light.

I usually prefer 2x scaling on a 4k screen, and then pictures and text are unscaled. I like being able to put a 1080p movie in the upper left corner and a reference webpage below that, then a big text editor to the right and 'work'.

toastal|5 years ago

I'd prefer 1440p over 4k but I don't think OLED panels come in that size

leetrout|5 years ago

Do you use 4K currently with Linux? If so what screen resolution / scaling and what WM / desktop?

I’m using pop_os and I desperately want scaling to work and it doesn’t.

hedora|5 years ago

Not the person you asked, but I use a lightweight window manager and set the screen DPI correctly using xrandr, and/or set the font in each app I care about.

I’ve found this works well across high and low DPI machines.

rathboma|5 years ago

If you're not doing fractional scaling it works well. But fractional scaling is still rough - in particular all electron apps are blurry

Karliss|5 years ago

Currently on Gnome+Wayland in a multi display setup that have different fractional scaling factors for each monitor. Usually 1:1:1.5 but I also tried 1:1.25:1.75 for the 1080p,1440p and 4K.

Gnome programs work perfectly. Qt looks good when wayland backend is force enabled but it causes crashes in certain situations so it's choice between slightly blurry text and occasional crash. Firefox works well, it used to require an environment variable not sure if it still does. Chrome support still not there, scale is correct but text is blurry.

smcleod|5 years ago

I haven't had any issues with display scaling using Fedora for quite some time.

blitmap|5 years ago

I am odd. On Windows I use 2x scaling on a 4k screen. On Linux I go unscaled and just bump up the text size in editors and GTK/Qt apps.