System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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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