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by baz00 976 days ago
Oh god no. This is just not the solution for most people unless you want to own their computing infrastructure until they drop dead and have to micromanage their differences galore.

And for myself, I'd rather pay for O365 than use Linux on the desktop. It is just so so so broken. High DPI is a mess, half the apps are only 60% complete, weird ass bugs (LibreOffice won't open spreadsheets it created half the time for example) and on top of that things break all the time on routine upgrades from power management to GPU drivers.

I say this as someone who actually spends most of the day SSH'ed into Linux boxes.

I've been trying for 25 years to get it on my desktop and it's nowhere near any commercial product in any way.
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firebaze 976 days ago
You seem to really have bad luck. High DPI works without a glitch¹ on all of our developer machines², most of them using two 4k monitors in parallel.

¹ both on Wayland and X11, so maybe we're really being lucky.

² mostly Dell Laptops, but also Lenovo

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baz00 976 days ago
Can you do 150% fractional scaling on a 27" 4K monitor in any Gnome based desktop?

Dell? I have a cupboard full of ones I've murdered and a limping one. No thanks.

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