What did he mean by this?

1024x768 ought to be enough for anyone

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>this post was made in 2012
>the situation is just as bad in 2017

>>59449604
Great smartphone resolutions while having shit laptop resolutions are a combo of Laptop OEMs wanting more profit and the fact its alot easier to make a smaller screen with higher resolution.

>>59449644
There's no profit in computers, you can't get people to pay $20 every time they want to win a puzzle game that way.

Now be a good sheep and ask Alexa what the best new iPhone app is.

Isn't it impressive how amazingly open about stuff he is? When you read opinions by people who do business, they always have these middleground, nothing-is-wrong opinions just so that they don't end up on the front page of The Verge with a headline like "Tim Cook admits you shouldn't have diversity quotas, and here's why that's bad".

Doesn't Windows still manage high resolution displays like utter shit?

>>59449753
No.

>>59449753
Yes
>>59449762
Retard

>>59449753
All operating systems do. Nobody develops high DPI support for computers because phones are more profitable.

640x480x16bits is a covenant

Instead of hiding behind meme text like a coward, why not state your opinion so we can have an actual discussion

>>59449794
Apple is probably only a year away from only selling high PPI laptops.

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>>59449794
macOS doesn't have that problem

>>59449794
But that's not true. Mac OS and Chrome OS and probably a few more Linux distributions have good high DPI support.

>>59449753
I think even Gnome distros do it better than Windows. macOS still reigns supreme at this though.

He's right as always

Now he needs to beat down GPU makers, all of them not just NVidia and get the fuckers to open their documentation and drivers up.

>>59449867
That is because macOS is a phone OS. It just does a good job pretending to be for desktops.

>>59449922
your dumb

>>59449931
Fantastic argument, thanks apple shill

>>59449753
Yes. Even on their own fucking Surface Book it's still plagued with scaling issues, especially with multiple displays.

Scale one display and it knocks the other out of whack. Scale the other to correct and then when you disconnect from the external display the main display looks like shit. Icons and other items don't scale sometimes, sometimes they do. The behavior changes greatly depending on if you connect to a external display already logged in, or if you wait to login after you've connected. The experience is garbage, and Apple figured this shit out literally 5 years ago. How is this acceptable?

>>59449794
>All operating systems do.
Fedora and macOS send their regards.

Microsoft will never fix Windows' scaling because they want you to stop using win32 apps and start using UWPs, which have much better scaling.

>>59450095
It's almost like MacOS is literally phones on desktop.

As for fedora I call shenanigans

>>59450118
MacOS is older than smartphones you dumb dumb. It's actually the other way around, iOS is based on MacOS.

>>59450118
it's almost like you've never used macOS and don't realize it's basically Linux with a much better desktop experience

>>59450151
>it's basically Linux
Linus himself said Darwin, the kernel, is shit.
>much better desktop experience
Better how?

>>59449644 Windows gui scaling is still horrible. Normies still get frustrated with high dpi displays.

>>59449604
shit that's a ... 2012 post... my 2016 lap is that res
fug

>>59450210
you've never used it, stop posting

>>59450243
No I haven't, ant that's not an argument.

lol, my laptop has 3200x1800
HiDPI is mostly a non-issue on linux. There are few programs that don't scale correctely, but it's the minority. (I'm looking at you, MonoDevelop!)

>>59450261
the fact that you've fallen for every anti-mac meme and even made up some of your own without ever using it says a lot about all the Apple hating children on this board
stop posting until you actually try macOS

>>59450214
Normies don't do anything but use their computers as Facebook and Spotify machines. Which works fine at high DPI.

>>59450288
1. I'm not saying anything against OS X/Mac OS besides the fact the kernel is shit.
2. I'm not buying their ridiculous hardware just to prove a point, thanks.

>>59450316
>what is hackintosh
do you even realize how ridiculous you seem? actively spreading false information about an OS you've never even used and you expect anyone to take you seriously?

>>59450316
>being too dumb to hackintosh
You realize it's possible to not have strong opinions about something you refuse to use?

>>59450334
What false information do I spread?
>>59450335
Hackintosh is unsupported and against the license.

>>59450352
>macOS is a phone OS

>>59450352
>against the license.
So is listening to iTunes while developing nuclear weapons and that has never stopped anyone.

>>59450374
I haven't said that.

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>>59450352
So if you refuse to even try out the OS, why do you have such strong opinions about it? I drive a Chevy, I don't have a strong opinion about Ford or Toyota etc because I've never driven one for any significant amount of time.

>>59450390
I don't have any strong opinions about it.
I'm just asking ITT about the UX.

>>59450412
just try it you moron
>>59450384
>>59450118
>>59449922

>>59450316
>>59450352
Anon's 'basically Linux' refers to a similar operating system structure, Unix-like. His point wasn't about the kernel.
Additionally, you don't use the kernel directly. Your shell does that.
And lastly, thinking that the kernel is shit is a thought you also borrowed from someone else without checking on it yourself.

>>59450424
Fuck of shill.

>>59450438
I trust the words of a kernel developer like Linux Torvalds when he's speaking of kernels.

fuck this thread, its shilled with apple products

>>59450485
how new are you, this is a pro-Apple board

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>>59449604
>HEY PC MANUFACTURES, MAKE ME SOMETHING LIKE A MACBOOK. WHY IS PC 10 YEARS BEHIND MACS? WHY IS PC 10 YEARS BEHIND iPad?

the post.

>>59450214
Wrong, enthusiasts get frustrated,
I won't buy a high PPI display until Windows 7 gets proper scaling or I can get my hands on another proper OS.

>>59450440
Apple makes no money when people hackintosh, how is he a shill?

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>>59450505
>PC manufacturers should do the exact opposite of everything Apple does

>>59450498
I was under the impression it was a pro gentoo board.
Windows users are toddlers and Mac users love eating dick

>>59450545
Why are Linux users so obsessed with other people's sex lives? Is it because they have none of their own?

>>59450539
>should do the exact opposite of everything Apple does
don't worry, they're doing it. that's why PCs (and especially laptops) suck shit.

>>59450511
GNU/Linux

>>59450545
The idea is that you test everything and fanboy the one that is the most bearable piece of shit;
then argue here that your piece of shit is the best.
Even though everything is terrible.

>>59450598
I can agree with that. I ended up on arch as the most bearable shit, so I must now hate windows and mac

>>59449604
He's being a big baby about the all thing.
Anything above 320x200x32 is just gravy

I don't understand why anyone wants these high resolutions. I can't fucking see anything with them.

at 1080p, the smallest laptop size I could use would be around 15". I don't want a fucking 13" laptop at 1440p.

>>59449637
>64x48x4 @ 12hz is enough for anyone

>>59450243
The Mac OS kernes literally is called Darwin. It is not Linux. That's just a fact.

>>59453131
Get glasses. Or use DPI scaling.
Oh wait, you run Windows.

>>59454724
no one said anything even close to macOS uses the Linux kernel, work on your reading comprehension

>>59454890
> it's almost like you've never used macOS and don't realize it's basically Linux

>>59455559
>both Unix-like
>no one said anything about the kernel at all

>>59455563
Linux *is* a kernel, you mongolian. He mentioned Linux specifically, therefore he mentioned the kernel.

>>59456680
take your gnu autism and go

>>59456680
Please stop saying incorrect things about the Linux operating system. MacOS is BSD, not the Linux operating system.

>>59449898
Sometimes even open-source drivers ate not supported gor Linux. Just see the condition of Radeon graphics cards on Linux.

>>59449604
He is absolutely right.

Isn't the issue about power draw?
Higher resolutions require more power, using more of the battery, and battery technology has stagnated hard.

>>59450151
That is complete bullshit. Finder is utter crap and its just hilarious how hard is to customize your experience to fit YOUR needs instead of enforcing you to fit in what they think you need.

>>59457248
your dumb

but tablets are shit. he is just shilling his own software. i'd take a 768p computer over a fuck boy ass touch screen android device anyday.

t. I had the first google tablet.

>>59450149
So it's phones on desktop?

>>59457248
finder is far from shit. its better than windows explorer or what gaynoo slash loonix managers are available.

>>59457318
>merge folders
>shits all over your data

dude finder is GREAT

>>59449867
That's not saying much given the price tag.

>>59457340
i dont give a fuck about merging folders but did you even read my post?

>>59457355
its free baka

>>59449604
That sounds like it was written by the average /g/ basic bitch, not someone who would actually have the inclination and capacity to think about the reasons behind it. Were hashtags even a thing in 2012? Would Linus have used them?

>be linus
>entitled eurocuck childhood
>buys aidsbooks and not iMacs
>complain when poor people buy things

what the fuck is his end game?