What Are You Doing Right Now
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We should have an ML Community list for what laptops have been tested with which distros and who has gotten things to work.
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@scottalanmiller It's good. I'm struggling with 1920 x 1080 on a 14" screen. I'm looking to see how I can change DPI or set the resolution to lower than 1920 x 1080 and still have a 16:9 aspect ratio. I contacted system76 to see if there are other 16:9 ratios native to this display.
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@RestoronixSean What little I've messed with it, I like it. For lack of a better phrase, it feels more like "home" than using the pre-installed Ubuntu.
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@RestoronixSean said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller I have an extra laptop sitting here that would be perfect for a Linux loading party. I need to open it back up again and fix the display because I must have knocked the power connector loose when I was replacing the fan awhile back. It was getting late, and I didn't feel like taking it apart again that night. HP really buried the fan on that thing. Haha
What laptop is it?
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller It's good. I'm struggling with 1920 x 1080 on a 14" screen. I'm looking to see how I can change DPI or set the resolution to lower than 1920 x 1080 and still have a 16:9 aspect ratio. I contacted system76 to see if there are other 16:9 ratios native to this display.
Dominica had that issue with her 4K screen, but when she moved to Korora it just fixed that problem. For her, Korora scaled everything to the right sizes.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I contacted system76 to see if there are other 16:9 ratios native to this display.
That would be a factor of the pixels, not something to ask S76. Just divide any display value into 1920x1080 to see if it is native or not.
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@scottalanmiller The only scaling option that's presented to me in settings is "double." This works, but it's too much
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller The only scaling option that's presented to me in settings is "double." This works, but it's too much
Well the next smaller native resolution is always 4x. So if you think double is bad.
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Looks like the issue is GTK.
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@scottalanmiller You're beating me to the punch with resources, but saving me a good bit of time.
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You could try a different desktop environment, I've not played with much scaling. Not sure how KDE does.
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@scottalanmiller That's what I'm considering. There are many options, and I have to remember that this is day 2 of being a non-server-CLI-only Linux user.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller That's what I'm considering. There are many options, and I have to remember that this is day 2 of being a non-server-CLI-only Linux user.
It's fun being in the cool kids' club, isn't it
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@scottalanmiller No kidding! I just installed KDE's Plasma. It seems to rock so far!
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller No kidding! I just installed KDE's Plasma. It seems to rock so far!
Plasma is pretty nice. I prefer Cinnamon, but both are very good. Gecko Linux does an exceptionally good job with the Plasma desktop.
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I use XFCE sometimes, too. And Korora really makes a good XFCE experience. It doesn't feel like XFCE anywhere else.
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@scottalanmiller HP ProBook 4730s
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@scottalanmiller Plasma seems to be handling scaling well.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Plasma seems to be handling scaling well.
Plasma is built on top of Qt which is more advanced compared to GTK. Gives it an edge.
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@RestoronixSean said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
HP ProBook 4730s
Looks like people have had success with both Fedora and Mint on there.
