bryars's comments

On: Ditching Windows: 2 Weeks with Ubuntu Linux on the Dell XPS 13

[bryars]

"Mutli-monitor is doable (not as good as macOS but as good as windows), "

What's the gap between Linux/Windows and Mac OS ?

[pzone → bryars]

MacOS has had perfect crisp multi-monitor support including fractional scaling and mixed DPI with per-windiow/per-monitor application DPI awareness for years.

Windows is finally introducing a diagnostic in the task manager to show which applications have high DPI support. The modern option, per-monitor awareness, isn't even possible on Linux with the X display server - it requires Wayland.

[Lio → pzone]

This is the issue in a nutshell for me. I wish I’d bought a FHD 1080 screen instead of 4K on my XPS 13 for this very issue.

Wayland isn’t an option for me yet because I need screensharing under Hangouts, etc.

You can’t mix the HiDPI internal screen with, say, a 1440 external monitor with Gnome on X11. Scaling is applied equally across both.

Also if you drop back to plain text e.g. during boot up the internal screen will show text at 100% scaling and the text is tiny.

I guess that might be something BIOS could take care of but it’s currently a problem.

Sorry, can’t offer comparisons to Windows, I just work with macOS and Linux.