Happy new year of the Linux Desktop!

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As someone using Wayland on a HiDPI screen it's not a great experience with legacy apps. You can't completely rely on application-controlled scaling since not all apps support it and if you switch to system-wide scaling everything looks like crap.

Which apps? I've discovered recently Electron apps can enable Wayland support with a command line argument.

Just last time it was free:ac; I had to change to system scaling because it would be unreadable otherwise, and that in turn fucked up Steam that I had managed to configure properly before.

But isn't that still on par with xorg where you can't have any fractional scaling?

To be fair I haven't tried. But I believe even at 2x scaling it looked like shit.

Integer scaling works perfectly, even with legacy apps. Fractional scaling works great with native apps.

*every application using xWayland looks like crap.

Native Wayland apps work great with fractional scaling.