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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I run 2 monitors with different DPIs and X11 works without an issue. Can't say the same about wayland where scaling still has so many bugs it's just unusable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can't set 2 different DPIs for the monitors on X11. On one monitor everything is just going to be bigger than the other. Depending on the DPI difference it can be basically unusable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Valid point. I forgot about 4K... I run just 125% scale so it doesn't bother me at all. Well it's kinda funny that both protocols are broken in that regard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I feel like taht's often the case but Wayland as the newer protocol usually has the correct architecture with a early implementation while X11 has hard to fix architectural problems. I am a opponend of "whatever works for you" and I think that will be Wayland for most people fairly soon if it isn't already but in case it actually isn't I wouldn't recommend it because, well, it doesn't work properly for you.

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