Comment by wolvoleo

19 days ago

It's probably called scaling because that's what other OSes do.

For example macOS just renders at 200% and then scales down to the desired level.

Linux is indeed way better at this.

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stephenr  19 days ago

macOS only does the downscaling step if you aren't using an exact 2x UI scale.

If it's exact 2x it just renders the UI using double pixels (2x2 per simulated pixel) and then sends that over the wire.

  • wolvoleo  19 days ago

    Yes true I know I just didn't elaborate that. This is why 200% looks the sharpest too.

tonyedgecombe  19 days ago

macOS is better when you have a 216 dpi monitor. Every application works perfectly which you can't say about Linux.

  • wolvoleo  19 days ago

    I can say exactly that about Linux?

    I use Linux as my daily driver (KDE, 200% scaling on a 24" 4K) and I really love its DPI scaling. With Plasma 5 I had a few little bugs involving DPI but they are solved with Plasma 6.

    Same wuth all the apps I use (which admittedly are mostly Qt apps because I don't like Gnome/GTK so I avoid those as much as possible).