Laptop screen recommendations - Fedora 22 & KDE

[alan at clueserver.org]

> Hi all;
>
> I'm currently running Fedora 22 on a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (3rd
> gen).  Fedora works well on it, my only complaint is that the screen has
> a built in anti glare filter and seems washed out, I'm not sure if this
> is the anti glare filter or if it's that Linux support for the Video
> card (Intel HD Graphics 5500) is not quite there yet.
>
> I'm planning to upgrade to a new X1 Carbon with more RAM and a faster
> CPU, I run the KDE spin. I wonder if anyone has any experience 'scaling'
> the KDE display with Fedora 22 (KDE 5 I believe) and what might be the
> best screen to run? Might the higher res screen fix my washed out screen
> issues? How well would it work with KDE 5? Other comments?
>
> My screen options are as follows:
>
> 14.0" FHD (1920 x 1080) with WWAN
>
> 14.0" QHD (2560x1440) IPS with WWAN
>
> 14.0" QHD (2560x1440) IPS Multi-touch with WWAN

I have a Lenovo W540 running F22. Works great. The 2K screen is crisp. The
anti-glare filter is most likely your problem. (Is there a relationship
between the diffraction grating and dpi? Maybe they assume 1080p screens?)

I don't have the touch screen. (I have spent years and years training
people not to poke at my laptop screen and now you make it so they will
want to do it more?!? Argh!)

KDE 5 should deal with the high dpi screen better than the older version.