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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by Tenoke on Thursday August 26, 2021 @05:47PM (#28321340)
Lucky. I'm currently on a 20.04 install with a 1080p laptop + 4k, and the scaling options are 100% or 200% for a monitor with fractional scaling I can apply with tinkering that applies to both at the same time. I just sort of have it in a non-optimal for either monitor state but I'm sure there's some way which I didnt find when I first installed it to make it okay. On a different machine and combination of monitors I've gotten it to work but with a lot of xrandr tinkering instead. I'm hopeful that your comment might suggest that next time I upgrade it'll work out of the box.
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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by heavyset_go on Thursday August 26, 2021 @05:54PM (#28321443)
Ubuntu's upstream and release schedule ensures that its packages are relatively out of date. It might be worth trying 21.04 for real fractional scaling with Wayland or a different distro with recent packages and Wayland.
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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by Tenoke on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:02PM (#28321532)
You're almost certainly right, as far as I can tell it should be fine with Wayland and 21.04 but I am just tired of reinstalling my OS every 6 months and don't trust direct upgrades much since they lose me even more time diagnosing an issue in the cases where they do break something.
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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by heavyset_go on Thursday August 26, 2021 @08:14PM (#28322718)
I've upgraded a few of my systems from 20.04 to 21.04 without an issue. If you take a btrfs snapshot before upgrading, you can roll back the changes if it turns out there's an issue with them.
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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by caslon on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:32PM (#28321885)
It's not lucky, it's just that I know better than to install Ubuntu. Ubuntu's been a bad choice from the beginning and intentionally goes against the defaults of upstream providers. Random corporate distributions never know better than upstream.
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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by Tenoke on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:43PM (#28321989)
Ok, that's fair. Maybe I'll finally decide that Ubuntu has more drawbacks than advantages for me (and it does have both) and finally switch to Debian directly.
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