Ask Slashdot: Good Linux Desktop Environment For Hi-Def/Retina Displays?

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 30, 2012 @08:50AM from the time-to-start-thinking-about-this-again dept.

Volanin writes "I have been using Linux for the last 15 years both at home and at work (mostly GNOME and now Unity). Recently, I gave in to temptation and bought myself a Macbook retina 15". As you can read around, Linux still has no good support for this hardware, so I am running it inside a virtual machine. Running in scaled 1440x900 makes the Linux fonts look absolutely terrible, and running in true 2880x1800 makes them beautiful, but every UI element becomes so tiny, it's unworkable. Is there a desktop environment that handles resolution independence better? Linux has had support for SVG for a long time, but GNOME/Unity seems adamant in defining small icon sizes and UI elements without the possibility to resize them."

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Re:Live with it by Billly+Gates · 2012-11-30 09:00 · Score: -1, Troll

Basically, Linux sucks.
But it has the advantage that if you don't like it you're free to write your own graphics drivers and make it look as nice as you want, and then you can give it away for free and get a nice warm feeling.
--man, I think I'd better check that "anonymous coward" box here...
It is so pleasing to know that Windows and Mac apps do not have problems retina too. It must be that hippie OS

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Re:No one cares by SuperKendall · 2012-11-30 09:33 · Score: 0, Troll

His whole purpose is just to hate what Apple does; he actually doesn't care about Linux whatsoever, nor would he understand how or why or when to run it.
He's probably just a bored teen that can't afford an iPod.

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