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Fedora 39 Released
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#22Did the upgrade on both server and workstation platforms, and it was painless. Great work!
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#23I've been a huge fan of Fedora, and it seems this release does 90% of what I want, but since I'm on a Framework 13 with a weird screen resolution, I once again fall into DPI scaling hell. GNOME locks fractional scaling behind an experimental option, apps like Signal are blurry and apps like Steam just seemingly ignore any attempt to scale properly. For what it's worth KDE seems to handle at least the blurry X scaling…
Fractional scaling was enabled briefly during beta but too many apps were blurry so they reverted and postponed it to Fedora 40
Re: Fedora 39 Released
#24I've been a huge fan of Fedora, and it seems this release does 90% of what I want, but since I'm on a Framework 13 with a weird screen resolution, I once again fall into DPI scaling hell. GNOME locks fractional scaling behind an experimental option, apps like Signal are blurry and apps like Steam just seemingly ignore any attempt to scale properly. For what it's worth KDE seems to handle at least the blurry X scaling…
Are Signal and Steam apps from Fedora? Is this a problem specific to Fedora 39?
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's 2256x1504 and 3:2. It's a nice screen, but it's one that absolutely works best at 1.5x scale since 1 is unreadable and 2 wastes plenty of screen real estate.
As an idiot who's never used a screen with more than 1080p resolution, is there a reason why just increasing font size doesn't work?
Not all UI elements scale with font size.
Illustrations, nested element containers, navigation controls, etc. It looks very comical when you first see it.
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#26Can anyone speak to their experience with the atomic/immutable versions of Fedora (Onyx, Silverblue)? It sounds pretty interesting.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's 2256x1504 and 3:2. It's a nice screen, but it's one that absolutely works best at 1.5x scale since 1 is unreadable and 2 wastes plenty of screen real estate.
As an idiot who's never used a screen with more than 1080p resolution, is there a reason why just increasing font size doesn't work?
Desktop apps scale their layout based on the number of pixels, not on text size. So (with the notable exception of browser apps and by consequence Electron apps) you will just end up having bigger text in a badly laid out window if you just increase text size.
Re: Fedora 39 Released
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's 2256x1504 and 3:2. It's a nice screen, but it's one that absolutely works best at 1.5x scale since 1 is unreadable and 2 wastes plenty of screen real estate.
As an idiot who's never used a screen with more than 1080p resolution, is there a reason why just increasing font size doesn't work?
Big fonts, small UI components. Looks bad and requires more accuracy with mouse movements.
Re: Fedora 39 Released
#30I've been a huge fan of Fedora, and it seems this release does 90% of what I want, but since I'm on a Framework 13 with a weird screen resolution, I once again fall into DPI scaling hell. GNOME locks fractional scaling behind an experimental option, apps like Signal are blurry and apps like Steam just seemingly ignore any attempt to scale properly. For what it's worth KDE seems to handle at least the blurry X scaling…
Are Signal and Steam apps from Fedora? Is this a problem specific to Fedora 39?
They are not, but that's not what users care about. See e.g. complains about old apps for Windows being blurry when DPI scaling was introduced.