<div dir="ltr">I am in the process of buying a laptop for travel. it should be 13"-14". relatively small and lightweight - and still with *power*.<div><br></div><div>I came across:</div><div><a href="https://www.mm-vision.dk/vision-b4385-baerbar-med-ips-panel">https://www.mm-vision.dk/vision-b4385-baerbar-med-ips-panel</a>. They have the option to purchase with no OS installed (hooray!) and you can choose between different CPUs, RAM configs and disk systems. It is also not very expensive specs taken into consideration, really.</div><div><br></div><div>But monitor is <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px">3200x1800 pixels on a 13" monitor. And that is the problem. This machine is designed for Win8, where the 'tiled interface' is DPI-aware and will scale automatically. I plan to install a dual-boot of Win7 and Linux (SuSE or Fedora), and they will both be completely hopeless to use on this system as everything (icons, controls) will be extremely small in almost every interface and application. </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px">I may opt for this instead: </span><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14px"><a href="http://mysn.eu/schenker-s413">http://mysn.eu/schenker-s413</a>. 14" monitor with 1920*1440 (HDMI) will just accurately work if the monitor is good quality. It also has similar configuration options as the one above.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14px">I dont think Linux Desktop people takes this seriously enough (or they do not communicate it). It will IMO take ~12 months and most laptops sold will a have a monitor with so high resolution that the Linux Desktop will be a museum item for people who like to play around with old hardware - and as a hobby only (and same will be true for Win7) .</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14px">Are there any efforts anywhere in the Linux world considering support for high monitor resolutions (auto-scaling based on DPI) like Mac/Retina and Win8 has? What Linux desktops/window managers have it in progress? Does anybody know?</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14px">What say? Was it too provocative?</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14px">post mortem: t</span></font><span style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">his is of course not for "Fedora Desktop" only. It is for the future of the "LInux Desktop" as such. But as Fedora now has a dedicated Desktop distro they should be serious about it. I think there should be no 'holy cows'. not X11 if Wayland does better and not Gnome if Enlightment does better. </span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Hilsen / Regards<br><br>Peter Laursen</div>
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