Comment by bayindirh

1 day ago

A 24" 1080p monitor is perfectly fine for working with text of any kind. I still use mine at home, even after a decade.

As others said, resolution is not everything. DPI and panel quality matters a lot.

A good lower resolution panel is better than a lower quality larger panel. Uniformity, backlight color, color rendering quality, DPI... all of them matters.

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This comment has been written on a 28" 1440p monitor.

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ginko  1 day ago

My theory is that people complaining about text on low resolution displays are using Macs. Apple has seriously gimped the text rendering on low-dpi displays essentially just downscaling a high-resolution render of the screen rather than doing proper resolution aware text hinting.

For some reason people then blame their old displays rather than apple for this.

  • bayindirh  1 day ago

    Makes sense.

    I sometimes connect the same 24" monitor (an ASUS VZ249Q) to my M1 MacBook via USB to DP (so no intermediate electronics), and the display quality feels inferior to KDE, for example.

    Same monitor allows for unlimited working for hours without eye fatigue when driven from my Linux machine. I have written countless lines of code and LaTeX documents on that panel. It rivals the comfort of my HP EliteDisplay.

  • carlosjobim  21 hours ago

    Yes we are! Macs don't play well with low dpi screens. However on high dpi screens they are better than anything else.

    • bayindirh  21 hours ago

      > However on high dpi screens they are better than anything else.

      As a Mac user, I find this arguable. Many of the color correction comes from the fact that Macs contain ICC profiles for tons of monitors. OTOH, if the monitor is already has accurate color rendering out of the box (e.g.: Dell UltraSharp, HP EliteDisplay), Linux (esp. KDE) has very high display quality on HiDPI monitors, too.