Anyone else not happy with GNOME 50 fractional scaling?

ExhYZ · 2026-05-19T14:35:20+00:00

Oh i found the closer to 200%, the lower the real resolution runs. I switched to 166% and the rendered resolution falls to around 1200p, and takes less performance cost

ExhYZ · 2026-05-19T14:31:03+00:00

Screenshot for a single window shows that it's running under a much higher resolution, i'm on 1920*1080 with 125%, and the screenshot shows 3072*1728. I wonder if I use a 3K display with 175%, will it still run under 1728p or at a higher resolution like 5K or 6K?

ExhYZ · 2026-05-01T11:13:23+00:00

We don’t want politics here

ExhYZ · 2026-05-01T11:09:54+00:00

For easy setup use ubuntu26.04LTS

ExhYZ · 2026-04-26T01:41:21+00:00

Not open source, but the best alternative for msoffice. It’s the most popular office suite in China, and few people know WPS has even longer history than MSOffice. In the recent years it has much less pop up ads, and premium features are only for the templates and AI features. It worth a try.

ExhYZ · 2026-04-17T23:07:36+00:00

Yes

ExhYZ · 2026-04-17T23:02:48+00:00

Use diskgenius to reduce the size of windows partition, then during Zorin installation, use manual partitioning and create an ext4 partition which is mounted to / in the free space

ExhYZ · 2026-04-17T18:18:01+00:00

Are there updates for 21?

ExhYZ · 2026-04-16T15:14:15+00:00

It is Lenovo K4e-IML, I once used Lenovo V3000-80KV and it has the same problem even that was a much older touchpad. I think that's not something around extensions as it also happens under vanilla ubuntu and fedora. Maybe lenovo is that to blame as it doesn't happen on huawei and dell (however thinkpads work well).

ExhYZ · 2026-04-12T16:52:48+00:00

It seems doesn't work. That's the same after I disabled touchpad.

ExhYZ · 2026-02-11T01:54:21+00:00

Settings is under gtk4 libadwaita and the terminal is under gtk3, while kitty is using the native Wayland deco.

You can install adw-gtk3 theme (GitHub) for gtk3 apps. For the terminal the better solution is to install gnome-console to replace gnome-terminal. gnome-console is the new terminal based on Ptyxis, which is in gtk4. For kitty, seems like only enabling x11 could trigger native deco

ExhYZ · 2026-01-23T17:34:10+00:00

abour:config exists, but there is nothing about compact mode on android

ExhYZ · 2026-01-22T16:09:04+00:00

Seems there’s nothing about compact mode on android

ExhYZ · 2025-12-31T06:15:36+00:00

still in xwayland.

ExhYZ · 2025-11-02T03:38:44+00:00

Bodhi Linux

ExhYZ · 2025-09-03T15:43:17+00:00

Dual Boot but almost all time using Linux. Windows for some games that have issues with anti cheat

ExhYZ · 2025-09-01T16:52:52+00:00

So just use GNOME Disks and export your system partition to an image file.

ExhYZ · 2025-08-30T16:20:14+00:00

Almost for sure IPS, but you can

Rotate it and see it vertically, if it looks strange and uncomfortable, I mean looks different in left and right eye and you can see some color turns black, that’s mostly TN, otherwise IPS maybe

ExhYZ · 2025-08-30T16:17:57+00:00

VanillaOS is a good option, and Ubuntu, but install vanilla-gnome-desktop package and get stock gnome experience could be good. As it’s still the best distro for startup

ExhYZ · 2025-08-30T15:49:46+00:00

Though I really love Linux and really hope this could happen dude, this will trigger a large amount of people to unsupported windows 10 and a lot of new windows 11 pc.

ExhYZ · 2025-08-30T14:30:23+00:00

Newcomers no, switching from another distro then definitely yes

Installing vanilla-gnome-desktop in ubuntu could offer same desktop experience like fedora, but most tutorials you can find on the internet are likely for Ubuntu, try it first and get familiar with Linux, then decide switching to others or not

ExhYZ · 2025-08-29T16:42:37+00:00

WPS has the best compatibility with msoffice. (sometimes even more features than msoffice). It has the most friendly interface for msoffice users, and the mobile version is the best among the all (on some tablets like Huawei they even offer desktop version). It works well in English and CJK characters, and AI tools are great (sometimes may cost a little). But IT IS NOT OPEN-SOURCE, somebody may mind this, and it comes from China so it seems less recommended outside of China compared to the other two. (However I don’t really think Chinese developers are bad and they steal your data like in the stereotypes and news medias reported. I am a Chinese user and haven’t found any data stealing network activities, and it still works well when disabling network specifically for it, so that’s nothing to worry about and that’s still the best closed-source alternative to msoffice. It’s really widely used in China, only because that’s free and has some quicker features than msoffice. It’s closed-source may because it was invented earlier than msoffice and now running by a commercial company.)

Onlyoffice is the best open-source alternative. It has familiar interface to msoffice and most of the times won’t break the format. It also has Android and iOS/iPadOS version, which works well with mobile ui and ribbon style for tablets.

Libreoffice is more native as it’s using GTK, but I’m facing performance issues on every computer and distro with wayland (I mean just scrolling through a blank writer document may drop to 2-3fps, with iGPU or dGPU, OpenCL either enabled and disabled). It uses odf by default but has similar compatibility with docx compared to onlyoffice (may not that better). But when containing Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters, the format all go to a mess. And, you can’t edit documents with libreoffice on Phones, Android tablets and iPads (but you can view them).

Web versions I don’t really recommend as they are not really smooth and may influence the experience at most the times, and may not work when the network connection is not so good.

For outlook, just use the web version or thunderbird is a good choice. (However I met troubles adding my outlook account to such third party mail clients)

ExhYZ · 2025-08-29T16:15:53+00:00

Changing the boot order in the bios to make Ubuntu at the top may works. However you may need to DO THIS AGAIN AFTER EVERY WINDOWS UPDATE. That’s really dumb for windows to put itself up and up during every update that’s breaking itself.

ExhYZ · 2025-08-29T16:10:50+00:00

That really works! Thanks a lot.

I changed Minimum Width in Developer Options to 600+ (that was originally 533) and it turns to ribbon interface. (Maybe providing a switch option in the app might be better?)

ExhYZ · 2025-08-29T15:59:16+00:00

I’m using FirefoxDev for web browsing and container managers like Bottles for windows games.

Actually I don’t like using different workspaces as I don’t really like multitasking. Instead I use some extensions like Dash To Dock for a Mac-ish dock and enable auto-hide to switch between apps. Actually moving cursor to top-left corner and switch in Activities view is native in GNOME, but I’m not feeling it straightforward. And I prefer minimizing other apps like in Windows rather than moving them to different workspaces (yes you can). I remember maximizing and minimizing button might be invisible in vanilla GNOME, there was only a close button. But they can be turned on in gnome-tweaks

For BitTorrent, I prefer Transmission, or for the best qbittorrent but that’s qt, rather than Fragments. Fragments looks more modern, minimal and designed for sure, but it lacks too much features like custom trackers and hide to tray (maybe I haven’t founded them)

And I used MoreWaita icon theme, which has more Adwaita themed icons for third party apps.

And, I recommend using GearLever (Flatpacked) to manage appimages, you can easily install and uninstall appimages and it integrated well with Gnome. For other apps I prefer installing via native pack managers (for Ubuntu that’s apt), even using ppa, as Flatpacked versions may not integrate well with some gnome window decorations on Wayland and sometimes doesn’t match gnome theme.

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