Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022)

Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022) by smoldesu on Sunday January 01, 2023 @11:15AM (#34207531)

Starting with Sway is not going to give you anything out of the box. Both KDE and GNOME will give you nice settings for display scaling, screen sharing, networking and pre-configured audio.

Not to accuse you of shooting yourself in the foot, but a lot of these things are much nicer managed by complete desktops.

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Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022) by siraben on Sunday January 01, 2023 @11:42AM (#34207836)

I did try to switch to GNOME 40+ but, as a sibling comment says, fractional scaling did not work, and I found GNOME to be even more difficult to tweak precisely.

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Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022) by smoldesu on Sunday January 01, 2023 @11:54AM (#34207982)

Wayland only added support for fractional scaling a couple months ago, it will be a while before we see it standardized in desktop settings and app libraries (maybe longer for Electron).

GNOME is certainly a tweak-lover's nightmare though, I'd recommend giving KDE a spin if you're brave. Qt applications and KDE should recieve fractional scaling support much sooner than GNOME (patch is already written/submitted), and generally the settings menu on that desktop is much more granular.

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Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022) by danieldk on Sunday January 01, 2023 @11:34AM (#34207744)

Fractional scaling does not work at all in GNOME. There is an experimental hack to enable it, but all your X11 applications will be blurry. Screen sharing and Bluetooth doesn't properly work half of the time when video conferencing.

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