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Author here: as they say, Linux is free if your time is worthless.

In my case, my time isn’t worthless but I do enjoy configuring my system. The tweaks shown in those blog post took me maybe half a day; I haven’t needed to make any significant changes since.

well that is good that it holds up. i also have to make this tradeoff but am less enthusiastic about it obviously. switching to a single hidpi display has made it more tolerable with bigger DMs

The problem is largely X11. Wayland desktops such as GNOME + Wayland applications generally work very well with HiDPI.

Even X11 applications work reasonably well on XWayland on e.g. GNOME, as long as all screens use 100% or 200% scaling. Unfortunately, with fractional scaling things break down with X11 applications.

Indeed. I'm running my 4k monitor at 100% and just increase the fonts in the apps themselves. It seems to work fine and there's no scaling involved.

If you actually use a modern config like the defaults on Fedora it all just works. 100% of these problems come from people trying to use the proprietary nvidia drivers which is filled with issues.