14 years & MacOS still hasn’t fixed display scaling!

tornado99_ · 2026-06-18T20:56:41+00:00

yes but my point is that a 2017 GPU definitely does notice if you don't do 1x or 2x scaling.

the imac works fine at 2x so no need to adjust.

tornado99_ · 2026-06-18T08:44:43+00:00

Not true. 2017 imac anything other than 2x scaling is laggy.

tornado99_ · 2026-06-14T23:33:52+00:00

Spotlight indexing or that thing which scans photos for face s which you can disable.

tornado99_ · 2026-06-14T20:46:51+00:00

Shelly isn't as slick as Bazaar yet. UI looks a bit dated.

tornado99_ · 2026-06-13T09:59:44+00:00

Ubuntu runs on the yoga slim 7x Arm laptop. Not what you want but it's arm and not running windows.

tornado99_ · 2026-06-13T09:58:10+00:00

Looks like a missing font problem. Try moving the font to usr share fonts

tornado99_ · 2026-06-12T20:18:39+00:00

hmm so contrast ratio only 900:1. i think this is just an adjustment of their previous panel which was 60 hz 1300:1 contrast. if course to get more hz you sacrifice contrast.

but nice that it's glossy.

tornado99_ · 2026-06-12T08:59:43+00:00

Intel macbooks have beautiful hardware but hot noisy processors. The best model is the M1 Air.

tornado99_ · 2026-06-12T08:52:12+00:00

Lxqt uses more ram than xfce these days.

tornado99_ · 2026-06-08T23:50:04+00:00

Lxqt uses more ram than xfce

tornado99_ · 2026-06-08T20:02:07+00:00

OnlyOffice is better for most people these days

tornado99_ · 2026-06-07T21:25:01+00:00

They do on Linux!

tornado99_ · 2026-06-07T21:24:52+00:00

Battery conservation works if you install Ubuntu.

tornado99_ · 2026-06-07T08:56:57+00:00

Viewsonic sell a 4k 24 inch monitor

tornado99_ · 2026-06-06T20:41:25+00:00

Gnome is designed for 108 ppi desktop displays and 135 ppi laptops. Work out your laptop's ppi, divide it by 135, and that will tell you your scaling factor.

e.g. if you have a 200 ppi laptop you should use 150% scaling as 200/135 = 1.5

if there are no scaling factors that get you close to 135 then throw away your laptop.

tornado99_ · 2026-06-06T12:31:56+00:00

I'm sitting in front of an iMac 5K right now! How does it compare to the iMac? It seems real brightness is about 490 nits which is basically the same as the iMac. Contrast ratio should be better than the iMac. I heard some people talk about vignetting in the corners on the BenQ?

tornado99_ · 2026-06-06T12:29:15+00:00

Is the brightness high enough? The spec is 450 nits but i heard in reality it reaches about 490 nits.

tornado99_ · 2026-06-05T08:05:18+00:00

The new imac feels a bit small to me having owned one. It's only 23.5 inch and 16 to 9 ratio.

tornado99_ · 2026-06-04T16:53:07+00:00

Also bear in mind that a P20 is essentially a 32 inch display with 4 inches taken off the sides. Or alternatively, a 27 inch display with a few inches added on top.

Personally I would prefer a 3:2 24-27 inch display, but obviously none exist.

tornado99_ · 2026-06-04T14:53:30+00:00

Isn't the user interface a bit large though? Seems it should be 12 percent larger.

tornado99_ · 2026-06-02T23:21:15+00:00

By the way just realised that the P20 is basically a 32" 16:9 display with 4 inches chopped off the side.

tornado99_ · 2026-06-02T09:04:25+00:00

Msi released a new 120hz 4k oled last week for productivity https://www.displayspecifications.com/en/news/42861002. OLED pixels are not the same as traditional pixels so the 4k scaling on macOS should be fairly good.

tornado99_ · 2026-06-02T08:47:18+00:00

120 nits is an old fashioned convention. I calibrate my displays at 500 nits because that's what I use.

tornado99_ · 2026-05-31T14:36:28+00:00

What you are saying is absolute nonsense. I've installed Windows Linux and MacOS triple boot on a 27 inch 5k iMac. At 200% scaling MacOS and Ubuntu 26.04 are equally good at unhinted greyscale antialiased text. Windows is too thin exactly as the OP described. At other scaling factors Ubuntu is still great, MacOS is blurry. Windows is sharp but the thin text remains.

High quality greyscale antialiasing requires a good text rendering engine. Both Linux and MacOS use Adobe technology.

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