• aleph@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Huh? Gnome has had fractional scaling for ages.

      All it takes is changing a gconf setting.

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        The option was there, but it wasn’t ready for every day use. The permanence impact was significant. The couple times I tried it, it was practically unusable. The UI also showed a warning about performance when you enabled it

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          1 year ago

          /shrug

          I’ve been using it on my multiple monitor setup for well over a year with no noticeable performance impact.

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      I just spent literally 3 days of my spare time trying to deal with scaling. I ran Linux on the desktop for 15 years. Had to switch to Mac for a while and then back to Windows for a while. Laptops with 4K screens turned out to be an interesting challenge when I finally came back. I had run gnome For most of my history with Linux.

      After a few days of fighting with scaling and trying to locate working plugins for things I wanted, I swapped over to KDE. My screen scaling and multiple display resolutions workwd perfectly out of the box and everything that I was trying to find plugins for was already there.

      It’s taken me since the early 00"s but I might have become a KDE convert.

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        Kde is my daily driver. Has been for 6 years now. I try gnome here and there just to see how it’s progressing. It sucked badly on a 14" laptop with 1440 screen I have. So glad scaling is fixed now

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          Yeah when I used to run gnome, It was just super minimalistic and a couple of extra options. Katie was like the cockpit of a fighter jet with switches and options just thrown everywhere. But now it seems like KDE has kind of cleaned up the options. I know Miss still struggling to get basic features not to break in between versions. I would have imagined by now that they would have brought some of the plug-in features in or at least made the APIs not break every time.