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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by pjmlp on Saturday April 01, 2017 @10:04AM (#14012154)
Yep, Windows API already had support for logical pixels in the 16 bit days and all good books always preached to convert between logical pixels and physical ones.

I guess people got lazy, as you say.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by kpil on Sunday April 02, 2017 @11:13AM (#14017431)
I think that the monitors stayed more or less the same later pixel density for a very long time. Is only been gradually increasing very slowly for 20 years, until a few years ago.

No point in spending time on logical pixels if it makes almost no relevant difference...

It's

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