4mo ago

Finally, a Linux laptop with a brilliant display and performance that rivals my MacBook - Tuxedo (German)

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Finally, a Linux laptop with a brilliant display and performance that rivals my MacBook

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Everything was perfect after a quick change to a 1920 x 1080 resolution.
That really grates. This person is supposed to be a technology journalist? And they've never heard of changing the font size?
- Came here to say this. The display has a resolution of 2880 x 1800 pixels. And this “journalist” tells me, that it looks good with a configured resolution of 1920 x 1080. Tells a lot about the quality of this review.
  
  As far as the display, it's beautiful.
  Coming from someone who sees no problem in downscaling by 2.5 the resolution instead of changing dpi, this means absolutely nothing.
- What do you expect from a person who cannot install an OS (or at least does not consider it)?
- Or scaling. Gnome supports scaling for high dpi displays out of the box. I suppose KDE too.
  
  My experience with Gnome scaling has been rather poor. I haven't tried it in KDE.
- Afaik this is the normal way of doing’s it on a Mac.
Out of the box, the laptop opted for the highest resolution possible, which made everything way too small for my aging eyes. Everything was perfect after a quick change to a 1920 x 1080 resolution.
... well that's certainly one way of wasting smooth gradients. I'd suggest zooming icons and text instead :)
Great review.
- Or using interface scaling overall, most DE's have interface scaling or HDPI mode.
  EDIT Including KDE Plasma which the journalist appeared to be using.
All laptops are linux laptops.
Well. Almost.
And its ridiculously expensive
- There's a reason why. These Linux laptops have the expense of testing hardware for compatibility, while also being fairly niche since most consumers aren't buying Linux laptops.
  But still, paying 1.6k for a laptop with 2 SSDs (a rarity) is quite fair IMO.
- Every laptop is expensive :O
This ist great, thank you!

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