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Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri... by michaelmrose on Friday February 18, 2022 @04:07PM (#30391130)
Linux actually has excellent 4K support. If you primarily use KDE and QT applications under x11 what you need to do is virtually nothing or set DPI. GTK apps can be adjusted by setting GDK_SCALE=Integer. If you want to tweak text bigger or smaller set your default font size in GTK/KDE settings to be larger or smaller.

There is an entire section on handles you can tweak in different environments odds are you need few of them save for the above as things are increasingly automatic. For example GDK_SCALE is enough for firefox to look correct without also fiddling with anything internal to firefox.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI

Essentially hidpi on Linux is spending 5 minutes reading a wiki then enumerable hours using the system.

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Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri... by secondcoming on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:31PM (#30393169)
It's 2022. Linux should be past the point of requiring people to hunt for a config file so they can edit it to get a usable display.
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Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri... by michaelmrose on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:01PM (#30393391)
It's a free software provided gratis by volunteers. Desktop Linux is mostly by techies and for techies despite any other aspirations. Things that work great but require configuration don't always get looked at or worked on. This is especially true if they only effect a tiny minority of users.

https://linux-hardware.org/?view=mon_resolution

You should absolutely volunteer your time to address high dpi configuration out of the box across several of the most popular distros. I mean for example KDE software already works basically perfectly right out of the box. So all you really need to do is automate the process of choosing ideal font sizes, scaling settings etc.

Push out looks-right.sh to various distros to be run at installation.

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