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Friends don't let friends buy HiDPI displays (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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My lower res, lower DPI display from my old Dell laptop looks much more sharp and crisp than the fancy pants Framework 13 high res display.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You assume incorrectly.

The way it works on macOS is that you select the ‘looks like’ resolution to determine the size. For example if you have a 4k monitor you can set a ‘looks like’ resolution of 2560x1440. Internally it always renders at 2x, so in this case it will render to 5120x2880. That image is then scaled down to the actual display resolution, e.g. 3480x2160. It’s basically supersampling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

So they do the same as GNOME? Scale double and then scale down?

Okay that makes sense as you need more pixels to work with.