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Re:System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment by Sayrus on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:54PM (#26799159)
Text rendering is way smoother, you can also read smaller font because they are more detailed instead of being pixelated.

While QHD is enough for me, 4K is great because it is a factor 2 compared to 1080p.

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Re:System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment by dahfizz on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:58PM (#26799205)
> 4K is great because it is a factor 2 compared to 1080p.

I strongly disagree. QHD is perfect for me, because everything renders natively and looks beautiful. 4K without scaling is unusable, and 4K scaled up is just 1080p - You lose all the screen real estate you paid for.

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Re:System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment by akvadrako on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @05:50PM (#26799801)
You're missing the whole point of 4K at 14". Everyone uses it scaled but there is more detail, most importantly with fonts. You don't need any stupid sub-pixel rendering stuff.
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Re:System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment by dahfizz on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @07:36AM (#26805645)
Or, you can have a 1440p and get more detail and more screen real estate :)
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Re:System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment by akvadrako on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @07:44AM (#26805722)
UI elements at 1440p/1x/14" is too small for my taste.
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Re:System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment by hvis on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @05:46PM (#26799770)
You get 4K for rendering detail, not for screen estate.
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Re:System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment by sitzkrieg on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @05:33PM (#26799615)
4k scaled up like that is incredibly sharp fonts tho, it looks really nice. but yea total waste of space otherwise. i was surprised to see big sur default to 200% scale on a 4k attached to m1 mac mini but obviously screen real estate is the least of concerns with that garbage padded ui
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