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I feel like GNOME developers need to drop what they’re doing immediately and focus on making fractional scaling usable. Hi-DPI scaling is everywhere nowadays from TVs to laptop monitors, not supporting it properly is a massive problem for all affected users.
I’d switch to Linux pretty quickly if they made using my damn laptop a usable experience without dealing with blurry apps or having to use a microscope to read text.
This is exactly what this change is about. Most blurry apps are blurry because they don't support Wayland (yet/by default) and are running using XWayland.
The only Wayland native software where I had problems with fractional scaling is Qt WebEngine which doesn't handle scaling correctly.
Yeah also no idea why XWayland is a problem, in general their fractional scaling is hidden, and when enabling it everything is blurry.
KDE works really well, for a long time, for Wayland and XWayland.
Meanwhile Windows 11... idk.