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Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by viraptor »

unrealhoang wrote: post #13
viraptor wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assure you it's enough to display text correctly in 1080p on 15" which is not considered hidpi. You may like hidpi, and that's fine. But let's keep shifting personal standards and what's practically usable straight.

That’s just simply facts, you can read more here: https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/

It may not be perfect and if I get my face close enough I can see the pixels, but that doesn't make it not correct. The text is displayed, I can read the letters without issues - that means they're displayed correctly.

I'm using a different hidpi display as well, and don't really care for the difference. The link does discuss real issues, but does not prove anything about "text displayed correctly".

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by sshine »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #16

good to see linux being sold in laptop out of the box. this means, hopefully that bugs that the linux community was used to, because everyone knew it and didn't bother fixing are getting fixed because linus managed to break Pop os in the first command. stuff like what kde is doing with their "15-Minute Bugs" are great initiatives. this will definitely help the overall linux software become more rugged and idiot frien…

> good to see linux being sold in laptop out of the box.

I remember knowing that if I got an IBM ThinkPad, it probably had good Linux driver support.

I still make the assumption that Lenovo ThinkPads have better Linux driver support because hackers prefer them. But I honestly have no idea if that's true any more.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by [deleted] »

sshine wrote: post #20
chrisseaton wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I vaguely think my cheap college laptop display around 2006 was 1080 lines tall. How can it possibly be that some manufacturers haven't moved on since then?

Some people don't care as much about DPI. I personally got the third-cheapest 49" ultrawide. People's eyesights vary. I need big letters anyways.

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Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by temac »

unrealhoang wrote: post #6

Non-hiDPI display in 2022 is a non-starter. There’s simply not enough pixels to display text correctly with full hd.

Do Linux distros support hiDPI including mixed DPI (e.g. with a hiDPI laptop screen and a low DPI external one) well ? Under macOS this works really fine, under Windows this is half garbage.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by sph »

sshine wrote: post #20
chrisseaton wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I vaguely think my cheap college laptop display around 2006 was 1080 lines tall. How can it possibly be that some manufacturers haven't moved on since then?

Some people don't care as much about DPI. I personally got the third-cheapest 49" ultrawide. People's eyesights vary. I need big letters anyways.

The point of HiDPI is not having really small text, is doubling the scaling so text looks smooth instead of a pixelated, blocky mess.

I thought it was a gimmick in 2015 before I got my first MBP, these days I can't go back and have my eyes bleed on 96 dpi. You don't even need full Retina, my 27" 4K screen looks gorgeous at double scaling.

>150 dpi monitors are the second best tech upgrade of this millennium after the SSD. Yet, there's still people these days that will try to convince you their 5400 rpm disk is fast enough, just because they have never experienced modern hardware.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by rawoke083600 »

unrealhoang wrote: post #6

Non-hiDPI display in 2022 is a non-starter. There’s simply not enough pixels to display text correctly with full hd.

I think this is a personal preference rather than a 'it just can not do it' situation.

Been programming for decades on 1080p and before 1080 on 1024. My eyesight is quite bad (-5.85) and i can see perfectly fine on 1080p. Sure 2k or 4k might be better. But thats true for 8k as well.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by Bromeo »

temac wrote: post #24
unrealhoang wrote: post #6

Non-hiDPI display in 2022 is a non-starter. There’s simply not enough pixels to display text correctly with full hd.

Do Linux distros support hiDPI including mixed DPI (e.g. with a hiDPI laptop screen and a low DPI external one) well ? Under macOS this works really fine, under Windows this is half garbage.

This is solved well in Wayland, with X11 this is not as straight forward. Wayland comes with some other issues though.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by rawoke083600 »

unrealhoang wrote: post #13
viraptor wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assure you it's enough to display text correctly in 1080p on 15" which is not considered hidpi. You may like hidpi, and that's fine. But let's keep shifting personal standards and what's practically usable straight.

That’s just simply facts, you can read more here: https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/

Lamborghini cars are faster than most jeeps. Facts, does not mean its a overall better driving experience or that jeeps 'simply' are not driveable.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by Macha »

chrisseaton wrote: post #9
unrealhoang wrote: post #6

Non-hiDPI display in 2022 is a non-starter. There’s simply not enough pixels to display text correctly with full hd.

I vaguely think my cheap college laptop display around 2006 was 1080 lines tall. How can it possibly be that some manufacturers haven't moved on since then?

Cheap 2006 laptop? Would have been 768p at best, maybe even 600p. Even Apple would happily sell you an 800p macbook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_(2006%E2%80%932012)) until 2012 and laptop GPUs of the era would struggle with a 1080p desktop.
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