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Re:System76 – Pangolin by echlebek on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:05AM (#25299174)
I use Fedora on a 4K 15" display with an Intel GPU, and the scaling works fine. However, the Intel GPU is a tad underpowered for the task.
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Re:System76 – Pangolin by ncmncm on Friday December 04, 2020 @01:02AM (#25299495)
I use a Skylake on a 4K laptop with a 4K external monitor above it. It is plenty fast, with no tearing. Under Qubes, where app VMs don't get to use the GPU, mpv plays full-screen 1080p video using 3 cores.

(Oddly, the external monitor will do 4K only at 30 Hz. I don't know if that is a limitation of the laptop or of the monitor.)

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Re:System76 – Pangolin by ericdevries on Friday December 04, 2020 @01:58AM (#25299760)
The 30hz thing might be because of an older hdmi version, like 1.4. I have had the same issues and it was a hardware limitation
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