I noticed that Firefox is amazingly crisp (better than my macbook) while other apps look fuzzy (eg. Discord, vivaldi); and not just the fonts, but the window chrome) ??

I’ve struggled with this, but there is an interplay between your monitor resolution, scaling of the total image, scaling of elements on the screen like text, and whether apps are Wayland or X native. I’ll try to share what I’ve learned. I have a Framework 13" AMD laptop and yes, Bluefin can look aw…

[image] mwshook: 100%: Sharp and everything’s tiny. 200% is sharp and huge. 150% is usually good. I like 125% scaling and the sharpness varied wildly between Fedora GNOME, Fedora KDE, Ubuntu 22.04, Windows 10, Ubuntu 24.04 and Bluefin. I felt like the full capability of the hardware had been unl…

FWIW, I had tried out Win11 on the framework at one point. A couple apps has fuzzy or tiny text. I’m not a developer but this seems like a “hard problem” for everyone

Thanks for the thorough and coherent explanation. The last time I used Linux as a daily desktop driver, we still had to edit xconfig.init to the monitor specific settings (loong before Wayland). I tried Kinoite first, a few months ago and I noticed a big degradation when I switched to Universal Bl…

[image] mwshook: An easy way to tell is the terminal command xprop. Hover over a window with the mouse. If the window is Wayland, it will look normal. If the window is X, the pointer will look like a cross. This is a helpful tip! Discourse uses X by default. The details from the reddit forum…

Why do some apps look fuzzy and others awesome?

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Blaise June 3, 2024, 4:57am 6

This is a helpful tip!

Discourse uses X by default.

The details from the reddit forum don’t seem to work for flatpak

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Why do some apps look fuzzy and others awesome?

This is a helpful tip!

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