I can't tell you how much I would love a Linux laptop, so much has been solved around power consumption and battery life, wifi stability, and so on. The one show stopper continues to be spotty HiDPI support for essential apps like The GIMP — the menu and fonts stubbornly stayed at 1x resolution and the icons were teeny. Ugh. Had a 9360 for a short time before reluctantly returning it.
So for me it's a Samsung Pro Chromebook as a daily driver and a 2015 Macbook Pro for development and graphics work.
How are things six months forward? Any better to completely working vs. 'closer and it'll be done soon'?
> The one show stopper continues to be spotty HiDPI support for essential apps like The GIMP — the menu and fonts stubbornly stayed at 1x resolution and the icons were teeny.
just put Xft.dpi: 144 (or more) in your .Xresources. (at least for menus & fonts)
On GIMP you'd probably be waiting for them to port to GTK3 for it to work well... and I wouldn't hold your breath. The party line there is still that they may just target GTK4 instead, given the likely timescale.
I do believe the unstable 2.9 series introduced an easy way to increase icon sizes, though, so that should be in 2.10 at... some point.
Could always go for the mere "full HD" screen where such things aren't as necessary.
So for me it's a Samsung Pro Chromebook as a daily driver and a 2015 Macbook Pro for development and graphics work.
How are things six months forward? Any better to completely working vs. 'closer and it'll be done soon'?