Does anybody here use high dpi laptops/monitors?
I use one and installed Debian with xfce. I had to change so many settings for everything to look normal but still some UI elements are too small.
On Windows 11 I have the 125% setting on which makes everything reasonably sized.
I also tried if Gnome and KDE looked better but both looked weird (I changed settings there too).
I use Asus Vivobook 15, if that matters.
I have to zoom this site too to make it look normal. I'm using firefox on windows.
Linux with High DPI is such a pain. There are always some programs that do their own weird thing and scale half of their contents to the screen. No one really does it right except for apple maybe, but I would never use their products.
>>2
In Firefox, there is a default zoom level. On Linux, I figured out a way to not have to use it, but I normally would rather have my text be a little to big instead of a little to small.
Rich people problems.
>>4
Op here
I bought my laptop for just 25,000 rupees which is around 300 dollars which is very cheap for a laptop.
>>4
Op here
I bought my laptop for just 25,000 rupees which is around 300 dollars which is very cheap for a laptop.
>>2
You can set your Firefox profile to scale the DPI of the font.
about:config
layout.css.devPixelsPerPx this defaults to -1 to follow system configuration.
Why did you buy a high dpi laptop? That was a silly thing to do.
>>8
It looks very good
I bought it for college
and I read a lot of book pdfs
its much nicer to read
>>9
I just print them. It's still cheaper if I take medications for my eyes into account.
>>10
I couldn't find any resources hinting that reading on a LCD screen causes eye damage. I was worried about this too some time ago. There no case of myopia or hyperopia in my family so maybe this wouldnt affect me.
>>11
Nevertheless my eyes hurt after some hours of looking at LCD screen. That was never the case when I read from paper (just a slight discomfort in next 15 minutes).
>>12
Do you adjust the screen brightness before reading? I've seen most people using their devices on max brightness for some odd reason.
>>13
I tried everything, including fonts. Perhaps my eyes just didn't adapt for this kind of thing, I read a lot of paper books as a kid.
What's so typical, my eyes bleed even more when I read e-ink.
>>14
yeah this is a common issue ig
but dont know why you issues with e-ink
thank god you werent born in 2050 or something
What's so typical, my eyes bleed even more when I read e-ink.
Perhaps you talk about early e-inks. They were realy unreadable.
I just bought a hi-dpi intel chromebook, installed an arch linux container via crostini and called it a day.
Chrome OS is unironically the only linux DE that Just Works(tm) on hidpi displays. (no, sway is not a DE)
OP here with an update
I set the font scale setting to 1.25 on the lastest GNOME and everything looks good.
But now the two finger scroll on touchpad is too fast and theres no solution for this yet:(
But I love the gnome way of doings things. Its like using some new futuristic design when compared to windows.
Also love how it only occupies a thin bar at the top leaving space for the windows.
This is why you make sure your DPI is somewhere around 80. Even on Windows image quality gets noticeably degraded when scaled. And if you mix and match with multiple monitors the scaled one will be very blurry. Get a 1080p 27inch IPS 120hz/144hz panel, it's arguably the best solution.
>>18
ex windows users are like immigrants. Retarded, uncultured, and annoying.