Why is HiDPI support so shit in most linux DEs? Using a 13 inch

Because 99% of freetards are too poor to have a high DPI screen and therefore do not develop for it

>>59839002
Use whatever torvalds uses, he uses a highdpi XPS 13

>>59839062
Linux Torvalds is anti-scaling, pleb
https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/ByVPmsSeSEG

He juts ups the font size

Unity

>>59839002
because it works only for gtk3 and qt5 iirc
>legacy toolkits are legacy
shoking right

if this is about fonts you're supposed to use something like this

   cat .config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>

  <!-- Put custom global fontconfig settings in this file. -->

  <!-- Setting to 72 here makes the px to pt conversions work better -->
  <match target="pattern">
                <edit name="dpi" mode="assign">
                        <double>PPI</double>
                </edit>
  </match>

</fontconfig>

find you PPI on sven.de/dpi

>>59839002
>tfw GNOME still only supports integer scaling

Many Linux users, especially developers are not chained to shitty guis that need explicit support beyond increasing the font size.

>>59839002
It's pretty good on recent Ubuntu and decent on Elementary Loki

It's shit on most DEs because most DEs are developed by small teams and are just special-snowflake bullshit or specifically for older, non-HiDPI, systems (e.g. XFCE).
HiDPI support is fantastic in GNOME, I've only ever had problems with Steam, which is more Valve's fault than anything, it has to be force-scaled under Windows and macOS still.
I assume it's fine in KDE at this point as well, I wouldn't know however. Generally speaking, just use a real DE.

>>59839002

Because you're using gnome. Gnome only alows for integer scaling for UI elements, which makes windows incorrectly sized; or non integer scaling for the fonts. But the font scaling with non integer numbers breaks the crispness of the fonts.

I use i3wm, but only ever really use vim and internet so don't need GUI,
but it looks fantastic on 2 4k monitors.

To imporve your fonts in gnome, dont use non-integer scaling, enable subpixel-rendering and slight hinting, make sure your dpi is an integer multiple of 92 and that you're use ttf fonts.