| I can confirm. Linux on HiDPI still has a lot of scaling issues that OSX and Windows does not - OSX is far superior here when it comes to handling their "retina" display. On my 1440p 23" desktop, things seem to render just fine. On my 11" lenovo helix and on my 15" macbook pro (while running linux), it's definitely noticeable. I mainly use either Gnome or MATE desktop on Ubuntu. MATE seems to handle scaling the desktop elements better than straight Gnome. But it's still a bit off. The worst part is browsing the web. Firefox has relatively decent HiDPI support these days, but Chrome on Linux is just terrible. A site like Facebook on Chrome shows the newsfeed as this 3" wide centered column, and you have massive white space on the left and right of it. But reboot into Windows and they make that column much wider and easier to read. On imgur on chrome/linux, I find most of the images are "too tall". If I'm watching an animated gif, I find that one edge is vertically outside of my viewport. Your only fixes is to change the scaling. As you do this, you start to lose the advantages of the higher resolution: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2911509/how-to-make-linuxs-de... Ultimately, things are still usable, video playback is fantastic, but most of the applications really need to improve their Ux on high resolution screens under Linux. |