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Fractional scaling
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2020–2024), in 4 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Fractional scaling breaks many application layouts in KDEUnreviewed
20202026- Fractional scaling forces the OS to render at 3x/2 for every frame, causing performance problems2024-10-29
- Mixed fractional scaling makes apps look wrong and small icons get misclicked2021-10-18
- Fractional scaling breaks many application layouts in KDE2020-04-23
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Fractional scaling forces the OS to render at 3x/2 for every frame, causing performance problems2024-10-29
- Scaling changes icons and margins too, wasting workspace on a 4K monitor2022-12-25
- Mixed fractional scaling makes apps look wrong and small icons get misclicked2021-10-18
- Fractional scaling breaks many application layouts in KDE2020-04-23