What did he mean by this?

What did he mean by this?

1024x768 ought to be enough for anyone

>this post was made in 2012
>the situation is just as bad in 2017

Great smartphone resolutions while having shit laptop resolutions are a combo of Laptop OEMs wanting more profit and the fact its alot easier to make a smaller screen with higher resolution.

There's no profit in computers, you can't get people to pay $20 every time they want to win a puzzle game that way.

Now be a good sheep and ask Alexa what the best new iPhone app is.

Isn't it impressive how amazingly open about stuff he is? When you read opinions by people who do business, they always have these middleground, nothing-is-wrong opinions just so that they don't end up on the front page of The Verge with a headline like "Tim Cook admits you shouldn't have diversity quotas, and here's why that's bad".

Doesn't Windows still manage high resolution displays like utter shit?

No.

Yes
Retard

All operating systems do. Nobody develops high DPI support for computers because phones are more profitable.

640x480x16bits is a covenant

Instead of hiding behind meme text like a coward, why not state your opinion so we can have an actual discussion

Apple is probably only a year away from only selling high PPI laptops.

macOS doesn't have that problem

But that's not true. Mac OS and Chrome OS and probably a few more Linux distributions have good high DPI support.

I think even Gnome distros do it better than Windows. macOS still reigns supreme at this though.

He's right as always

Now he needs to beat down GPU makers, all of them not just NVidia and get the fuckers to open their documentation and drivers up.

That is because macOS is a phone OS. It just does a good job pretending to be for desktops.

your dumb

Fantastic argument, thanks apple shill

Yes. Even on their own fucking Surface Book it's still plagued with scaling issues, especially with multiple displays.

Scale one display and it knocks the other out of whack. Scale the other to correct and then when you disconnect from the external display the main display looks like shit. Icons and other items don't scale sometimes, sometimes they do. The behavior changes greatly depending on if you connect to a external display already logged in, or if you wait to login after you've connected. The experience is garbage, and Apple figured this shit out literally 5 years ago. How is this acceptable?

>All operating systems do.
Fedora and macOS send their regards.

Microsoft will never fix Windows' scaling because they want you to stop using win32 apps and start using UWPs, which have much better scaling.

It's almost like MacOS is literally phones on desktop.

As for fedora I call shenanigans

MacOS is older than smartphones you dumb dumb. It's actually the other way around, iOS is based on MacOS.

it's almost like you've never used macOS and don't realize it's basically Linux with a much better desktop experience

>it's basically Linux
Linus himself said Darwin, the kernel, is shit.
>much better desktop experience
Better how?

Windows gui scaling is still horrible. Normies still get frustrated with high dpi displays.

shit that's a ... 2012 post... my 2016 lap is that res
fug

you've never used it, stop posting

No I haven't, ant that's not an argument.

lol, my laptop has 3200x1800
HiDPI is mostly a non-issue on linux. There are few programs that don't scale correctely, but it's the minority. (I'm looking at you, MonoDevelop!)

the fact that you've fallen for every anti-mac meme and even made up some of your own without ever using it says a lot about all the Apple hating children on this board
stop posting until you actually try macOS

Normies don't do anything but use their computers as Facebook and Spotify machines. Which works fine at high DPI.

1. I'm not saying anything against OS X/Mac OS besides the fact the kernel is shit.
2. I'm not buying their ridiculous hardware just to prove a point, thanks.

>what is hackintosh
do you even realize how ridiculous you seem? actively spreading false information about an OS you've never even used and you expect anyone to take you seriously?

>being too dumb to hackintosh
You realize it's possible to not have strong opinions about something you refuse to use?

What false information do I spread?
Hackintosh is unsupported and against the license.

>macOS is a phone OS

>against the license.
So is listening to iTunes while developing nuclear weapons and that has never stopped anyone.

I haven't said that.

So if you refuse to even try out the OS, why do you have such strong opinions about it? I drive a Chevy, I don't have a strong opinion about Ford or Toyota etc because I've never driven one for any significant amount of time.

I don't have any strong opinions about it.
I'm just asking ITT about the UX.

just try it you moron

user's 'basically Linux' refers to a similar operating system structure, Unix-like. His point wasn't about the kernel.
Additionally, you don't use the kernel directly. Your shell does that.
And lastly, thinking that the kernel is shit is a thought you also borrowed from someone else without checking on it yourself.

Fuck of shill.

I trust the words of a kernel developer like Linux Torvalds when he's speaking of kernels.

fuck this thread, its shilled with apple products

how new are you, this is a pro-Apple board

>HEY PC MANUFACTURES, MAKE ME SOMETHING LIKE A MACBOOK. WHY IS PC 10 YEARS BEHIND MACS? WHY IS PC 10 YEARS BEHIND iPad?

the post.

Wrong, enthusiasts get frustrated,
I won't buy a high PPI display until Windows 7 gets proper scaling or I can get my hands on another proper OS.

Apple makes no money when people hackintosh, how is he a shill?

>PC manufacturers should do the exact opposite of everything Apple does

I was under the impression it was a pro gentoo board.
Windows users are toddlers and Mac users love eating dick

Why are Linux users so obsessed with other people's sex lives? Is it because they have none of their own?

>should do the exact opposite of everything Apple does
don't worry, they're doing it. that's why PCs (and especially laptops) suck shit.

GNU/Linux

The idea is that you test everything and fanboy the one that is the most bearable piece of shit;
then argue here that your piece of shit is the best.
Even though everything is terrible.

I can agree with that. I ended up on arch as the most bearable shit, so I must now hate windows and mac

He's being a big baby about the all thing.
Anything above 320x200x32 is just gravy

I don't understand why anyone wants these high resolutions. I can't fucking see anything with them.

at 1080p, the smallest laptop size I could use would be around 15". I don't want a fucking 13" laptop at 1440p.

>64x48x4 @ 12hz is enough for anyone

The Mac OS kernes literally is called Darwin. It is not Linux. That's just a fact.

Get glasses. Or use DPI scaling.
Oh wait, you run Windows.

no one said anything even close to macOS uses the Linux kernel, work on your reading comprehension

> it's almost like you've never used macOS and don't realize it's basically Linux

>both Unix-like
>no one said anything about the kernel at all

Linux *is* a kernel, you mongolian. He mentioned Linux specifically, therefore he mentioned the kernel.

take your gnu autism and go

Please stop saying incorrect things about the Linux operating system. MacOS is BSD, not the Linux operating system.

Sometimes even open-source drivers ate not supported gor Linux. Just see the condition of Radeon graphics cards on Linux.

He is absolutely right.

Isn't the issue about power draw?
Higher resolutions require more power, using more of the battery, and battery technology has stagnated hard.

That is complete bullshit. Finder is utter crap and its just hilarious how hard is to customize your experience to fit YOUR needs instead of enforcing you to fit in what they think you need.

your dumb

but tablets are shit. he is just shilling his own software. i'd take a 768p computer over a fuck boy ass touch screen android device anyday.

t. I had the first google tablet.

So it's phones on desktop?

finder is far from shit. its better than windows explorer or what gaynoo slash loonix managers are available.

>merge folders
>shits all over your data

dude finder is GREAT

That's not saying much given the price tag.

i dont give a fuck about merging folders but did you even read my post?

its free baka

That sounds like it was written by the average Sup Forums basic bitch, not someone who would actually have the inclination and capacity to think about the reasons behind it. Were hashtags even a thing in 2012? Would Linus have used them?

>be linus
>entitled eurocuck childhood
>buys aidsbooks and not iMacs
>complain when poor people buy things

what the fuck is his end game?