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860lacov

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Registered: 2020-05-02

Posts: 497

Best desktop environment for HiDPI screen

I have quite simple question.

On laptop I have xfce and it's ok but it can be scaled up to 2x.
I Checked and it seems that it's to small for my eyes when I put it on 4k tv

Could you tell me which DE is better suited for 4K or more resolutions?
I'm thinking about KDE and Gnome.
Like KDE, know how Gnome looks. Not sure which one is more polished in terms of high resolutions.

It's going to be installed on home PC so I don't want window managers.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,354

Re: Best desktop environment for HiDPI screen

Both should work fine as far as the toolkits are concerned, read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI

And decide for something and try it out, it's completely trivial to switch between different environments you can have them installed simultaneously. Most of your threads so far read like you are completely frozen in fear of doing something terribly wrong. That's not a productive way to go about this. Your questions are borderline unanswerable as they depend on preference and we don't know your preferences. It's your system you have to decide what you want to do with it, that's the entire point of Arch Linux. You are never going to run this system if you have to double check every little decision you are making here.

Just do it, come back when you have specific questions or run into issues.