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Whenever I see “programming monitor” I hope it’ll be another 5K+ high DPI display to compete with LG Ultrafine 5K, but here the horizontal resolution is <4000 pixels. People go on about 120hz displays but I really think 5k is much more important for programming where reading and writing text is the whole game.

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5k is only necessary if you use a Mac IMO, because of MacOS's blurry fractional scaling.

4k at 27 inches is great on Windows and KDE with Wayland.

Reading and writing text is perfectly fine on a full-hd display if you have subpixel antialiasing. The only platform where 4k is barely enough is macos since they deliberately decided to remove subpixel hinting when they introduced hidpi displays.

I go blind when I look at a lower ppi display at this point. With or without subpixel AA. Weird how you get used to something.

Or just disable antialiasing altogether. Generally you'll want to enable full hinting too. Quality depends on the font. I use the DejaVu fonts because they look good like this. I'd actually prefer bitmap fonts everywhere, but this is almost as good.

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