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[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (15 children)

I feel like GNOME developers need to drop what they’re doing immediately and focus on making fractional scaling usable. Hi-DPI scaling is everywhere nowadays from TVs to laptop monitors, not supporting it properly is a massive problem for all affected users.

I’d switch to Linux pretty quickly if they made using my damn laptop a usable experience without dealing with blurry apps or having to use a microscope to read text.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Fractional scaling has been perfectly functional on Gnome's Wayland implementation for some time already.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’m guessing you’ve never used an electron app before?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

That's a problem with XWayland, not Wayland. Forcing electron apps to run using the latter generally fixes the problem.

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