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Re:4th Gen KDE Slimbook – Linux Ultrabook with an AMD Ryzen ... by pivo on Thursday July 07, 2022 @07:57AM (#32012852)
As others have said, smooth, crisp font rendering. I’ve been using high DPI displays for almost 10 years now and would never consider going back. Using a 1440 monitor, say, feels to me like using a machine with a floppy disk: an anachronism.

My wife though swears she cannot tell the difference and doesn’t care which she uses. This boggles my mind and is actually a bit frustrating to me, but that’s my problem.

So, I’m interested in if you can tell the difference but don’t care or if it’s something else.

I’ve always used a Mac though, maybe that’s the difference? Never seen Linux/Windows in 4K.

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Re:4th Gen KDE Slimbook – Linux Ultrabook with an AMD Ryzen ... by goosedragons on Thursday July 07, 2022 @09:49AM (#32014048)
I don't care that much but I do notice. Most PC laptops these days are 1080p and at their sizes this is generally 160+ PPI which is about the same as a 27" 4K display so it looks fine to me.

Apple also has made their text rendering look worse on non-retina screens a few versions back which exacerbates the problem compared to Windows and Linux.

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Re:4th Gen KDE Slimbook – Linux Ultrabook with an AMD Ryzen ... by windowsrookie on Thursday July 07, 2022 @04:31PM (#32018948)
I switch back and forth between modern High DPI displays and older ~1440p displays. I don't really care myself. High resolution has never mattered to me.

I'm the same way with video tho, I can still watch 480p YouTube video and it doesn't bother me at all. Whereas some people I know can't stand watching 1 second of video below 1080p.

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Re:4th Gen KDE Slimbook – Linux Ultrabook with an AMD Ryzen ... by zozbot234 on Thursday July 07, 2022 @09:51AM (#32014093)
1440p can be quite crisp if you're using pixel-perfect, antialiased rendering and looking at the whole screen. Even for text. Anything higher is either overkill or (most often) compensating for defects in the rendering pipeline.

(In fact, there's a viable argument that even 1080p ought to suffice, and 768p be "good enough for most uses".)

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