[hollerith]

>they refuse fractional scaling

Huh? I'm using Gnome instead of MacOS because I can choose the size of the text and the other UI elements. On MacOS, the only choices that aren't blurry are 100% scaling and 200% scaling, but Gnome lets me set the scaling to an arbitrary value without blurriness. (I had to fuss with Emacs and my web browser to get them to be non-blurry when the scale factor is something other than 100%.)

Are there stupid design decisions in Gnome? Yes, but I've found Gnome to be usable with a little research (i.e., on how to set keyboard shortcuts for switching between apps instead of the "activities view").

[bombela]

Ok now I am not sure which is which, what it working and what isn't anymore: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI#Fractional_scaling