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I want too much. I need a 4k oled display and I'd buy AMD so fast.

>>blitma+(OP)
Do you use 4K currently with Linux? If so what screen resolution / scaling and what WM / desktop?

I’m using pop_os and I desperately want scaling to work and it doesn’t.

>>leetro+A
I haven't had any issues with display scaling using Fedora for quite some time.

>>leetro+A
Not the person you asked, but I use a lightweight window manager and set the screen DPI correctly using xrandr, and/or set the font in each app I care about.

I’ve found this works well across high and low DPI machines.

>>leetro+A
If you're not doing fractional scaling it works well. But fractional scaling is still rough - in particular all electron apps are blurry

>>blitma+(OP)
I had a few 4k laptops and .. eh .. they're excessive. I have a 4k monitor I do my photo editing on and it makes a difference, but a 13-15" laptop screen is really too small for me to care.

>>blitma+(OP)
Schenker and Tuxedo will have one w/ a 100% DCI-P3 Samsung 4K OLED available in September https://www.reddit.com/r/XMG_gg/comments/hjxm80/launch_schen...

>>blitma+(OP)
I'd prefer 1440p over 4k but I don't think OLED panels come in that size

>>blitma+(OP)
Might want to pester Sager to put it on the AMD version: https://www.sagernotebook.com/15-Inch-to-16-Inch-Gaming-Lapt...

>>lhl+O5
That is the best news I've heard all month! Thank you!

>>djsumd+G5
I'm often working out of a hotel and my laptop screen is my only screen. I can use the hotel TV but it's painful looking up-down-up-down. I can carry a portable external monitor but that becomes unmanageable when I need to pack light.

I usually prefer 2x scaling on a 4k screen, and then pictures and text are unscaled. I like being able to put a 1080p movie in the upper left corner and a reference webpage below that, then a big text editor to the right and 'work'.

>>leetro+A
I am odd. On Windows I use 2x scaling on a 4k screen. On Linux I go unscaled and just bump up the text size in editors and GTK/Qt apps.

>>leetro+A
Currently on Gnome+Wayland in a multi display setup that have different fractional scaling factors for each monitor. Usually 1:1:1.5 but I also tried 1:1.25:1.75 for the 1080p,1440p and 4K.

Gnome programs work perfectly. Qt looks good when wayland backend is force enabled but it causes crashes in certain situations so it's choice between slightly blurry text and occasional crash. Firefox works well, it used to require an environment variable not sure if it still does. Chrome support still not there, scale is correct but text is blurry.

>>blitma+4d
I found that scaling killed performance for me on an old intel 6500U, so I bumped font sizes and icon sizes up and went unscaled. DrRacket is the only program that doesn't obey it currently. Even Emacs works fine.

>>blitma+Xc
> I can use the hotel TV but it's painful looking up-down-up-down.

Why would you be looking up and down?

>>Shorel+rX
Often the TV is mounted on the wall above the desk I am working at. So you sit on the bed with your laptop instead and use Miracast and a Microsoft Wireless Display adapter (nice) - but looking near and far is painful as your eyes refocus.

I just find it simpler to have 1 high resolution screen where I can put high def content side-by-side or in quarters on screen.

For now this works, but in 10 years when movies and web pages are 4k by default I'll need an 8k laptop screen (haha)

(Probably at 17" though)

>>blitma+Bm1
I see. Very informative answer.

When I am working I only use one screen, and only one window in the screen, and instead I constantly switch between virtual desktops, to the point where I just think "browser", "editor", "terminal" without even perceiving the keystrokes.

However, for gaming I dream of having one of these ultrawide screens that have the resolution of 3 normal screens side by side. Something quite complicated to have in a laptop, but I have seen some attempts.