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by danuker 1582 days ago
Hint hint, monitor manufacturers. Maybe your target market might become larger through some free software contributions.
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NavinF 1582 days ago
Linux desktop has <2% market share. A monitor manufacturer would have to be suicidal to try fixing a platform that doesn’t even have proper support for basic features like display scaling.
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danuker 1582 days ago
1% could be the difference between breakeven and loss. I am a Linux user with 2 "low" resolution monitors, because I don't trust software support for higher resolutions, but admittedly also because 1080p is fine for me.
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NavinF 1582 days ago
That’s fair, but with consumer electronics you need to sell at 2.5x BoM cost. Breakeven is death.

It’s worth mentioning that display scaling was one of many dealbreakers that made desktop Linux unusable for me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28490753

I’m pessimistic about any of this getting fixed in the next few years.

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