[nikki93]

Sad. :/ I’m about to get an X1 Carbon or T480s and trying to decide if 1440p... On the one hand, really digging the idea of hidpi fonts in terminals and web; on the other hand this Linux support madness...

I think the main thing to ponder is whether I’ll be hooking it up to external displays a lot. Is the situation basically “no issues” if not using external displays?

Also when hooking up to external is it possible to make X switch to lodpi everywhere and “pretend” that the 1440p screen is 1080p (like tell applications it’s 1080p)?

[nvarsj]

Yeah it is only an issue if using mixed DPI. I set the font scaling in Gnome 3 to 1.5, and everything handles it fine - even IntelliJ scales its fonts accordingly.

If you can match your external DPI to the laptop that would also work (but it's sort of an awkward DPI).

The hiDPI is nice for your fonts, but for working day-to-day I don't really notice it much.