I'm using multiple 32" 4K monitors, and while the additional definition might be "nice," I certainly can't work with any "smaller" text.
I wish Dell would produce 8K monitors in a much larger format, like 48".
I wish Dell would produce 8K monitors in a much larger format, like 48".
You can even drag a window from a HiDPI monitor to an old fashioned one and it will do what's right.
I never understand why people say things like this. Why not just throw more pixels at text rendered in a readable font? Does DPI scaling not work on their operating systems?
As my monitor resolutions have gotten larger, my text on screen hasn't become smaller at all. I simply go with a higher fidelity. Isn't that what most people do?
Also, do you know what a larger than 32" display is going to do to your poor neck?
If it does, you're doing something wrong.
(It does improve legibility of small text, I'll grant you that)
Anyway, on iMac Apple doubled the resolution (quadrupled the number of pixels) when they introduced the "retina" versions so there was no font size change.
I picked 44" as the optimal size for me by standing 3 feet in front of all the 4K TVs at my local warehouse store and seeing what sized TV let me see the entire screen without swiveling my head - 48" was just a little too big.
My 4K screen works really well in Windows 10 other than a couple of old apps that don't to font scaling for their title bar correctly. I have the TV scaling at 125% and the laptop scaling at 250%. I'm not sure what an 8K screen would do for me as a programmer.
Maybe you wouldn't be stuck with monochrome bitmap fonts for good clarity. AA on 4k is still quite uncomfortable in comparison.
One thing I also did before I bought the exact model was do a little research -- the TV I bought has 1 HDMI port (out of the 5 available on it) that runs at 60Hz instead of 30Hz like the other 4 ports. I use that port for my laptop. I also read online that that port also skips the "Ultra HD engine" in the TV but I can't find that in the tech specs.
Btw, while I was looking for the tech specs I realized I have a 43" TV not a 44" (https://www.vizio.com/m43c1.html)
I have two Samsung 4k monitors and they are unbearable to use with HDMI at 4k, I had to get a new video card to drive them both over display port.
Multiple monitor support on Windows 10 I've also found to be very dependent on your graphics drivers and hardware configuration, as it always has been.
Linux support is spottier, especially when using multiple displays of varying DPIs, but even Gnome works pretty well on a HiDPI laptop these days.
Actually, Gnome is the only one that doesn’t do proper HiDPI support. It only supports 96 and 192dpi - not any other ratio.
In comparison, Qt supports different ratios for every screen, all ratios specified as float – you can even scale up, down, whatever.
The environment variable used is
QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=DisplayPort-2=1.75;HDMI-A-0=1.08;I can't say anything about windows 10's support (The highest I have is 1080p)
Qt’s had QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=DisplayPort-2=1.75;HDMI-A-0=1.08; for years, but GTK still only supports one global scale factor, and that’s limited to 96dpi or 192dpi.
So JavaFX only scales to these, while Java Swing scales perfectly (but still only handles one global scale factor)