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  • gazter@aussie.zonetoGaming@lemmy.mlHDMI 2.1
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    12 hours ago

    Huh, that’s interesting. I would have thought that a TV running Linux would be called ‘smart’.

    I’m with you though, it’s better to be more ‘modular’ and have your playback device- be it PlayStation, media server, heck even television receiver, seperate from the display itself.





  • My exposure to Linux is pretty minimal, especially Linux with a GUI, so forgive my ignorance. Even reading over this thread I’m confused as to the issue here.

    I don’t need an ELI5, but maybe someone can explain it like I don’t know what Wayland is?

    My understanding is that an app should ask the system to display an object at X size, let’s say text at size 14. The system then works out that at the currently selected display resolution, size 14 will be Y pixels big. If needed, the system can scale that based on user preferences- a small, high DPI screen could render size 14 at only a couple of millimetres, for example.

    Is the problem that devs are building things in a way that bypasses scaling? For example, hardcoding size 14 text to be Z pixels high?