I'm on the verge of giving up trying to make the switch to Linux that I posted about before. I tried #Ubuntu 23.04, #Kubuntu 23.04, #Fedora Workstation 38, #EndeavourOS, #KDE Neon, #openSUSE #Tumbleweed, #PopOS, Linux #Mint, and #Manjaro with my hardware. With every single one of them, I ran into scaling issues when it came to #HiDPI. (Plus some other annoyances out of the box.)

I'm beginning to think it might be me. Or #Nvidia. I consider myself fairly tech-savvy, and if I can't get it to run without major quirks, it must be much harder for people without much prior knowledge.

For what it's worth, of all those listed distributions, EndeavourOS (I tried KDE) and Linux Mint had the fewest issues.

The only way I can currently see myself using #Linux as a daily driver is by buying an even larger monitor and then running everything unscaled at 4K resolution. Or learn to live with lower-resolution monitors.

I think it will be #macOS in the long run, with some special-purpose Linux distros as VMs if I don't find anything that works soon. I thought about switching before and got some interesting replies.

defaultvlan :verified: (@[email protected])

Looking for recommendations for my next attempt to switch to #Linux as main OS. Many attempts before failed but I got a little bit mad about #microsoft recently, so I want to try it again. == What’s important to me == It should not feel like a big experiment all the time. #HiDPI #4K multi monitor viable (fractional scaling) Software in repositories shouldn’t be too outdated high customizability is okay, but the distribution should look nice and run stable out of the box. No 20 hour config file tuning after first install. base OS shouldn’t be too obscure, so that it isn’t an extra effort to follow setup instructions for 3rd party software ==What’s not important to me== Gaming

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@defaultvlan It's so annoying when the scale doesn't take. Sometimes it's an X11 vs Wayland thing, forcing the app to use the other protocol might fix it.