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by Ruq 1270 days ago
There is a way to toggle experimental fractional scaling in GNOME.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI -> 1.1.1 Fractional Scaling

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It's done by upscaling and downscaling by integer amounts, so it's not quite the same as true fractional scaling.
It works ok, Apple does it the same way. However, I find Microsoft's approach better.
>It works ok

...if you're OK with blur and wasted performance. I like my text crisp, rendered exactly to the desired size, with subpixel antialiasing, and knowing my hardware is not wasting cycles in rendering to a higher-than-needed resolution and then throwing some of that away with raster resampling.