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by SuperscalarMeme 2042 days ago
While I agree the issue is most certainly real, I feel that Apple Silicon is the scapegoat. Computing platforms need to evolve in order to progress, and sometimes the burden lies on developers to keep up. I think this is more of a story about legacy software compatibility and lack of open source solutions.
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One of the nice things for users on MacOS is devs are forced to keep up and use the latest standards pretty quickly so everything just works mostly as long as you aren't using an unmaintained tool or updating OS on day one. On Linux I have to use Wayland to properly support different screen DPIs but then a bunch of software hasn't updated to use the new apis because they can just tell the user to revert to X.