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A comment on Ask HN: New Monitor: Ultrawide or 4K?.

Re:Ask HN: New Monitor: Ultrawide or 4K? by benologist on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @09:26AM (#21452588)
I find my 32" 4K scales poorly in macOS, basically I can have everything tiny or everything massive and the scaling options make no sense there's only 720p, 1080p, 1600x900 or 4K.... there is no option between 1920x1080 and 3840x2160.

In Ubuntu it is more flexible but I think the sweet spot is going to be a 6K for scaling the UI at 3K but those might be a year or two away from existing and affordable. At below 30" 5K would be fine, I have a 25" 2.5K monitor that is very comfortable to use.

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Re:Ask HN: New Monitor: Ultrawide or 4K? by OldSchool on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @01:59PM (#21455464)
If you're not using a discrete GPU, that addition very possible will open up some more HiDPI resolutions for you. With a modest RX-460 (recognized in 10.13+) I get a variety of formats starting from a 2560x1440 layout over 3840x2160 pixels, and incrementally more spacious, all still over 3840x2160 on the wire, all with excellent HiDPI rendering. My intel graphics iGPU delivers just the limitations you described.
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Re:Ask HN: New Monitor: Ultrawide or 4K? by ProZsolt on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @05:53AM (#21522781)
In the display settings hold the Option key while you click Scaled to see additional resolutions.
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Re:Ask HN: New Monitor: Ultrawide or 4K? by stephenr on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @01:28PM (#21455167)
Which Mac and what version of macOS are you using?
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Re:Ask HN: New Monitor: Ultrawide or 4K? by righteous on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @10:36AM (#21453274)
You can probably solve this using a tool like switchresx to create a custom scaled hidpi resolution that’s more to your liking.

For example, I created a custom resolution for my 5k2k display to appear as 3440x1440. It’s beautiful.

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