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by diffeomorphism 2074 days ago
Is it? It apparently is not good enough for the main screen.

The thing is that scaling works just fine if all your displays use the same one. Two 4k screens -> awesome. Two fhd screen -> works just fine. It is only the combination of one hires and one lowres screen that is problematic.

So my maybe naive take away is that if you care that your main screen is 4k, then no your old screen is not good enough. And if you think it was good enough, then why did you feel the need to upgrade your main screen?

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As I answered earlier: Different screens can be used for different purposes, and different purposes may have different requirements :)

Even if money was no issue and I could have two screens of the same quality, I’d still keep the old screen as a third screen.

For most people, more screens = better, but for me there’s also the fact that to actually design content, you need to be able to verify what this content is going to look like on the devices the users are going to use.

Because I use the main screen for more than displaying docs and chat? And it's a problem to spend large-ish amounts of money just to workaround software problems?