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by marcan_42 2087 days ago
I just switched to a 4K monitor last week. Set display scaling to 1.5x in the KDE settings, logged in again, and everything looks great and scales cleanly. I haven't noticed any weird artifacts or bizarre UIs yet. It just works.

Except Spotify, that needs a command line flag to set the scale factor, but that app is well known to be half-assed on Linux (they also don't support input methods, so searching for Japanese songs is a copy and paste exercise) and that's not Linux's fault.

AIUI the nvidia drivers are a lot better these days, but most Linux users, myself included, know to stay away from nvidia unless you have very good reasons not to. AMD cards work beautifully.

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If you have different DPI needs, xorg has a lot of difficulty with it. works on windows.

Wayland doesn't work on nvidia and is missing some features too. Linux desktop sucks.

As an aside for Spotify, the Flatpak version has added some nice hacks around scaling, theming, and deep links.

https://github.com/flathub/com.spotify.Client