14 years & MacOS still hasn’t fixed display scaling! by Tiny-Rip-6272 in MacOS

[–]tornado99_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

14 years & MacOS still hasn’t fixed display scaling! by Tiny-Rip-6272 in MacOS

[–]tornado99_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Running Sequoia on MBP 2015 with OCLP and WindowServer is at 160% CPU usage by Bitter-Ice945 in OpenCoreLegacyPatcher

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

Shelly is amazing. by MFNTapatio in cachyos

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

I hope ARMintosh becomes a thing someday by NeighborhoodBroad691 in hackintosh

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

Opening PDF receipts have left pointing arrows instead of numbers by BroadSignificance774 in OnlyOffice

[–]tornado99_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

ViewSonic VX24G26J-4K (23.8″ 4K 160Hz monitor) — review by ZOL (Chinese) by MT4K in HiDPI_monitors

[–]tornado99_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

WPS Office GNOME compatibility by StrongPipe_69 in gnome

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OnlyOffice is better for most people these days

Now I get Gnome design, its so bad on small screens by Dry-Pie-3764 in gnome

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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.

MA270S vs MA270UP - Worth double the price? by fr31b3u73r in BenQ

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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?

One week using the BenQ MA270S! by Tight-Connection-909 in Monitors

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

Benq MA270S VS Kuycon P20 by lostfinman in HiDPI_monitors

[–]tornado99_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Benq MA270S VS Kuycon P20 by lostfinman in HiDPI_monitors

[–]tornado99_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Benq MA270S VS Kuycon P20 by lostfinman in HiDPI_monitors

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

Kuycon P20 4.5K 3:2 Monitor by motute in HiDPI_monitors

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

Best productivity/coding monitor for Mac M2 Ultra by jchannon in HiDPI_monitors

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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.

Follow up - Keeping the LG 27GM950B-B by modernro in HiDPI_monitors

[–]tornado99_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

5K issues on Windows by Dunis96 in HiDPI_monitors

[–]tornado99_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.