Hey I was just wondering what everyone thinks about the state of 4K/HiDPI in Linux and where it’s going.
I use a 4K 32" monitor and it’s been great running KDE Garuda at 125% global scale up until the KDE 6 update. Since KDE 6 is very sub-par on X11 I let the forced Wayland adoption happen… but Wayland still looks kind of bad with global UI scale turned up above 100% (better than it used to, but still nowhere near as good as on X11).
So I went with a different approach and stopped using 125% scale. I turned up all my KDE font sizes by one point, set Firedragon default zoom to 120%, and made other font size adjustments where I could. It’s not perfect (some things are still too small) but it’s pretty good.
I was just thinking about it and I was wondering how long we’d have to deal with things being too small in Linux on 4K displays. I’m not sure how common 4K is these days… I used to love lower res screens like 2K but after fighting against the push to get rid of bitmap fonts in Linux… I gave up and went for 4K instead. For me it has to be bitmap fonts on low res screens… the blurry anti-aliasing of vector fonts at low res is not pleasant. I feel like bitmap fonts were killed off way too soon, since many people were still using lower res screens.
Anyway, just wondering what others think about the situation. I am pretty happy with my system now but I feel like it shouldn’t take so much tweaking to not go blind with a 4K monitor in 2024.