Comment by Atlas26

Comment by Atlas26 21 hours ago

3 replies

> Linux isn't in position regarding display/UI.

I’m glad everyone is dogpiling on this statement cause man people seriously have to stop parroting this years out of date claim at this point. Any big well supported distro using Wayland should be fine, at the very least KDE and GNOME are guaranteed work perfectly with HiDPI.

Daily Fedora KDE user here on 4K HiDPI monitor plus another of a different lower resolution, flawless experience using both together in a setup. Fractional scaling also there working perfectly as well and you choose how you want KDE to scale the apps if you want (forcefully or let the app decide).

port11 20 hours ago

Funny you mention Fedora, since the installer itself is unusable in my 4K display, defaulting to the 4K resolution instead of a 2x. I never managed to install Fedora using the GUI.

  • prmoustache 8 hours ago

    Why don't you just set the resolution manually temporarily for the installer to say 1920x1080 at boot time?

    • port11 4 hours ago

      “Why don’t you just” is precisely the Linux thing that irks me the most.

      Why don’t they just make it obvious? Why doesn’t the installer just figure it out or ask me when it launches?

      I agree that that would help, but it was easier to just install another distro.