Lets Drop Old Monitors

[Clay Weber]

On Wed, July 18, 2018 5:49 pm, Bmarsh wrote:
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> From: Bill Vance <kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org>
> Subject: Re: Lets Drop Old Monitors
> Date: 7/18/18 5:11 PM
> To: Kubuntu user technical support <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> There's another aspect of this that we've kinda walked by
> without mentioning.  Ever noticed how lots of folks say they aren't
> interested in *nix cause it's, way too hard, and/or complicated?  The
> complete newbie knows nothing at all about what we've been discussing, or
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> This is just rude.  There isn't even a browser callup, HOWTO
> file on the desktop.  Not even one showing how to adjust it's own text
> size, to help them along.  Nuff said.
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> And yet, you want to make it more complicated with a bunch of resolution
> settings...   whereas with Windoze, it’s a no brainer!
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> And no, I don’t run windows, maybe because it IS such a no brainer..
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I dunno. I recently went from a 32 inch 1080p TV as a monitor, to a 43
inch 4k unit. While Windows had no problem adjusting from the jump from
1080 to Hidpi, when I first recovered Windows on my PC, just in case, for
a possible job, I needed the magnifier to see the 1080p screen. Exactly
the same as in Linux, including the complete lack of familiarity on where
things are in Windows land.

The kernel and xorg set the resolution, and I read somewhere I think that
96 dpi is either hard coded, or the strong default

I have yet to see a distro that sets a good scale or dpi automagically.