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Can you do scaling with xrandr? I scale gnome to 2x and then have this line in my .xprofile: xrandr --output eDP-1 --scale 1.4x1.4 I disable it whenever playing video games on steam.
Setting up scaling via xrandr when you have multiple (different-sized) displays is probably doable but incredibly tricky.
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> The only 'con' is the pushing of Snap packages. It looks like deb files only can be installed via the terminal. My main concern with Snap is security. Using the default Ubuntu Apt repositories, I can `apt install` pretty much anything I want and it's almost guaranteed to not be malicious/dangerous, as only trusted/well-established developers can get their package into the Apt repos. However, with Snap, everybody in…
This is a bug and is already fixed, debs can be installed by clicking. (Source: Alan Pope in the Ubuntu Podcast Chatter Telegram channel)
My concern is really more about the command-line, as that's how I (and probably most technical users) install packages.
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> The only 'con' is the pushing of Snap packages. I don't get why they're doing that. Snaps have mostly created problems for me, like they don't scale when other apps do, or the styling is off, or they don't show up properly in the software manager. The snap daemon on one of my laptops always blocks the shutdown by 30 seconds. Generally a rather confusing experience.
I'm on Fedora where the equivalent is called Flathub/Flatpaks. There are definitely some rough edges still, but the possible upsides are amazing for me. It makes it way easier for a developer to release for different Linux-flavors. The applications get sandboxed and there is much less risk to mess up your system. Stuff like permission, similar to Android/iOS becomes possible. There for sure is problems to: it makes i…
Apparently snaps are also sandboxed between versions of the same application. My very first experience of snaps was Vuze getting updated overnight and all my configuration and torrents just vanising.
I ended up rolling back the version (to restore everything that disappeared) and, upon discovering snaps are designed to never be able to lock a version number, shot it in the head by killing the daemon and chmod'ing its executables to not be executable.
I assume Vuze's snap was misconfigured, but it really turned me off of them and I've since decided to stick to nix instead of snap whenever I can.
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This is a bug and is already fixed, debs can be installed by clicking. (Source: Alan Pope in the Ubuntu Podcast Chatter Telegram channel)
What do you mean? I'm assuming that this is a Snap Store feature? My concern is really more about the command-line, as that's how I (and probably most technical users) install packages.
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While I would agree it's certainly not insignificant, fractional means, say, 1.5.x. A nice high-resolution display will be 2x, which will generally result in a nicer experience (largely due to how software deals with it or not). Now many people do indeed have displays where a fractional multiplier works better, but as a buying rec - try to avoid them.
You usually want 1.5x for 13.3" laptop with 1080p which is not uncommon at all and is kinda hard to avoid.
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Try using mixed DPI displays. My main display is 27 inch 4K display, and on the sides I have old 19 inch 1280x1024 displays, used for IRC, music player, process monitor, email etc. Stuff I glance at from time to time. _NOTHING_ supports this setup properly. Even Windows has bugs galore as soon as you mix high and low DPI displays. I don't believe anyone ever tests this scenario. I've learned to tolerate and work arou…
I use a 1440p display at 100% and a 4k display at 175% on Windows and it works fine. The only bug that I see is that if a window is spanned across two monitors, it picks the scaling based on which monitor contains more of the window. I'm not even sure that's a bug, it's just how it has to be done. (My first mixed DPI setup was actually on ChromeOS. That got around the issue by not letting a window span monitors. Actu…
It does not look like it is available yet: https://releases.ubuntu.com/
My first Ubuntu install was 7.04 Fiesty Fawn, a full alphabet circle ago, crazy how time flies.