New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available

Re:New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available by apcragg on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @05:26PM (#18983794)

I have the older 13" 3200x1800 screen and it is amazing. I put Ubuntu 18.04 on it since it wasn't available as a developer edition. The display scaling is my only problem but that's more a gnome thing. Running it with Windows was a almost perfect (why, Xilinx can you not do display scaling...). I thought I wouldn't notice the extra resolution due to the small screen but it both looks really nice for text and allows me to scale everything slightly smaller so that I can fit more on my screen for productivity. That being said, I use it as a laptop, on my lap. The extra resolution is pretty useless if I'm using it on a desk or table. But for that I have an XPS15 + 27" 4K setup.

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Re:New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available by AsyncAwait on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @05:34PM (#18983874)

As far as I know GNOME can do display scaling, but not fractional display scaling yet.

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Re:New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available by apcragg on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @08:05PM (#18985078)

Yeah that's the problem. 2x is too big and 1x is too small on 3200x1800. Luckily there's a workaround to scale text to 1.5x which for most purposes is fine.

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Re:New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available by Tepix on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:50PM (#18986074)

I like 2x scale on the XPS 13 9350 (with 3200x1800). It results in a super sharp 1600x900 which is ideal for the 13.3" screen site.

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Re:New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available by heywire on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:41PM (#18985777)

Give KDE Neon a try. I use it as my daily driver on a Latitude 7370 with the 3200x1800 display.

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