With all the shilling I hear for Zorin and Mint about how plug and play they are, it makes me really wonder how many people use scaling. I have vision issues, but I still find it hard to believe that people can comfortably use any computer 1440p and above without scaling. Shit just looks way too small to me.
I have no intention of ever using a monitor with a resolution higher than 1920x1440 (RIP that $20 21" Trinitron I so unwisely discarded just because it weighed 90 pounds) but could you not just change your theme settings to make the sizes of fonts and UI elements larger? That's what worked just fine when I was running that high resolution CRT with KDE3 back in 2007 or so. Now everything is sized right for 1080p so there's no reason for me to do that, but there's no reason for the Linux desktop to have gotten LESS capable in 20 years, right? RIGHT?
I have a laptop with 1440p and use 150% scaling and it works fine, I haven't really tried 125% scaling though but I would imagine it's a little more computationally heavy
I've only tried Zorin on 1080p screens. I use 720p often, have no 1440p, and haven't tried it with a 4K TV yet.
I use a 32" 4K screen at 200% scaling, and I have no idea how people can seriously stare at anything scaled smaller.
80x25 text mode installer chads stay winning.
I've never used scaling. I don't think I've even tried it. I've always just changed the font size. It just seemed like the most reasonable solution to the font being too small. Because generally everything else is the size I want it to be at the normal scaling.
ok I have to ask.
I really don't understand why so many people nowadays act like 1080p is shit. Just because something better exists doesn't make the quality *bad*. For most applications and use cases you really do not need 4k.
Indeed. KDE has had a way to apply some subset of KDE theme and font settings to GTK/Gnome apps since at least KDE3. Gnome, being retarded, has not. Apparently the KDE implementation is still around, although I wouldn't be surprised if it's a bit broken nowadays. So if you're using some mix of KDE and Gnome it makes sense to use KDE first and configure themes in there.
It's pretty much a question of aspect ratio. 16:9 feels cramped when editing a video, document, image, etc.
You are just beyond retarded, if this is the kind of question you have to ask.
+1 especially for Rimworld, Terraria and World of Warcraft. Its what prompted me to get a monitor newer than ~2012. Haven't tried gaming on my X11/bspwm setup too much but Way/Hyprland hasn't given me shit so far, at least not on Guix or Nobara.
It's kinda annoying when tech channels telling you to upgrade your monitor(from 1080p to 1440p) first then to upgrade your GPU and CPU.
I'm assuming the answer is because you're a retard that fell for the marketing bullshit. I was hoping I was wrong. I don't think I was though. I'm sure it will be soooo worth it for the next "upgrade" too. Totally not a scam.
The argument is pretty sound just because 1440p gaming at medium-high settings is generally much better visually then max at 1080p. You are probably not going to appreciate the difference between 7/10 and 10/10 grass clutter especially given the lower resolution. Also various fake AI frames options are common on new games and moderate use is mostly *fine* even if they are not ideal.
you know what? thats actually a good point, other than for watching movies i think being able to play terraria on the highest resolution possible is the only good use case ive seen for ultra high res monitors. still a gimmick but now that you mention it i really want to boot up terraria on the nearest 4k screen.
