I'm grateful that on Mac, this is handled for us. We don't ever have to think about it. Actual resolution is always native, and the "resolution" you set is virtual, which in effect is an automatic UI scaling factor. This allows hi-res graphics to use the resolution that is there, without messing up the UI of everything else. (Granted, you can force none-HiDPI modes if you want to, but few do.)I never understand why people set their resolutions to native 4K, where everything becomes pretty tiny, then start scaling their system/all their software up individually to make it useable, and then find there are software that doesn't scale well or at all making it unusable, when they could just set a resolution less high, have the same size monitor, don't have to scale anything, and the things that don't scale are also at a perfectly useable size.
In Windows HiDPI modes, this mostly works the same way, but YMMV depending on the software. Older software is not HiDPI-aware, and scales poorly.
On Linux - forget it. It's an absolute mess. If you use only very specific software with specific DEs and specific themes, you can pull it off, and it mostly works, with a ton of text file diving and tweaking, until it doesn't.
Statistics: Posted by teilo — Thu Jan 02, 2025 6:37 pm