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		_8huj on July 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: KDE Slimbook: Linux Laptop with Ryzen 4000 I am odd. On Windows I use 2x scaling on a 4k screen. On Linux I go unscaled and just bump up the text size in editors and GTK/Qt apps.

bjoli on July 23, 2020 [–]

I found that scaling killed performance for me on an old intel 6500U, so I bumped font sizes and icon sizes up and went unscaled. DrRacket is the only program that doesn't obey it currently. Even Emacs works fine.

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