In 2024, with GNOME 45, Wayland, and 1.25 fractional scaling, regular DPI displays still look better than HiDPI displays. This is a photo of Discord on two laptops side by side.
The blurry one is the HiDPI display from Framework 13. The sharp one is a regular DPI display from Dell XPS 13. Both laptops.
The difference is even more stark in person.
Even the screenshots from the Framework are blurrier than the screen shots from the Dell.
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This is an Xwayland and Electron issue, not a Discord or Gnome or a Display issue. This is because Electron under Xwayland (and also somewhat under Wayland) doesn’t behave well with fractional scaling. If you want a true comparison, try opening Discord on Firefox with Wayland. It will be night and day in terms of sharpness compared to regular DPI displays
There’s no useful information to glean from this image other than the fact that we finally found someone who uses light mode on Discord.
I generally prefer light mode (I got lemmy on light mode for example) but certain apps like steam or discord just always were dark mode so I prefer them like that now lol
Tell me you have no idea what you are doing, without telling me you have no idea what you are doing.
“The blurry one” bro, which one is blurry or sharp. You never said left or right and assume we persieve things like you do
The Arch Wiki gives good tips on what environment variables to set to make sure that your GUIs are running with Wayland native and not XWayland. I have a Framework and I don’t have any blurry text issues, and I’ve done all the settings in this section.
Did you enable subpixel font rendering and mess with the hinting?
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Both of these are perfectly legible.
Have you gone outside this week?
Text and vector graphics should scale quite well. There are some cases where fractional scaling doesn’t work out, for example on borders that are 1 pixel wide @1x. Do you render them 2 pixels wide @1.5x, or 1 pixel? I have a Windows system for work and 1.5x scaling in Firefox renders buttons uneven, so the borders are thicker on some sides and thinner on others.
Fractional scaling isn’t the best solution, but even with most desktop displays transitioning from 2560x1440 to 3840x2160 we get fractional scaling. Sucks that 5120x2880 isn’t more mainstream for ~27" displays.
Sucks that 5120x2880 isn’t more mainstream for ~27" displays
I’ve been waiting for so long for a OLED/mini LED 27" 5K display with >=120Hz… Would be an almost instant buy from me… I don’t care if I need a new GPU, I can scale my game to 1440p and it will look just like it does now: fine!
I would avoid fractional scaling in general
