In 2024, with GNOME 45, Wayland, and 1.25 fractional scaling, regular DPI displays still look better than HiDPI displays. This is a photo of Discord on two laptops side by side.
The blurry one is the HiDPI display from Framework 13. The sharp one is a regular DPI display from Dell XPS 13. Both laptops.
The difference is even more stark in person.
Even the screenshots from the Framework are blurrier than the screen shots from the Dell.
I’ve been waiting for so long for a OLED/mini LED 27" 5K display with >=120Hz… Would be an almost instant buy from me… I don’t care if I need a new GPU, I can scale my game to 1440p and it will look just like it does now: fine!
I fear that at these resolutions we will discover that UI frameworks are not really scalable in terms of performance