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It's a complete mess. I tried to switch from macOS to Linux Ubuntu running wayland gnome. HiDPI is sort of ish there. Spotify definitely isn't and weird stuff going on in other apps too.

The touch pad is not even remotely comparable with macOS. No inertia scrolling and overall a clumsy feeling.

Shearing when scrolling is common. The entire UI stutters if I compile some rust in the background.

Key bindings are inconsistent and all over the place.

UI defaults are totally weird with screen estate given up to absurd use cases.

System tray icon are stretched. Debian just released a glibc that completely broke electron. So no slack, vscode or spotify until that was sorted by a third party ppa.

I'm running screaming back to the Mac.

I tried to switch from macOS to Linux Ubuntu running wayland gnome. HiDPI is sort of ish there.

I have been using GNOME with a 4k monitor a year or so. It works fine, including most exceptions. The exception are Gtk+2 applications such as The GIMP and Inkscape. Heck, even Tk applications are scaling. The really big downside is that fractional scaling is not well-supported under GNOME on Wayland (I don't care that it is technically a hack on macOS, it works).

Spotify definitely isn't

spotify --force-device-scale-factor=2.0 works great on my machine.

Shearing when scrolling is common.

For me this has improved when I switched from NVIDIA to AMD. The open source amdgpu driver is great.

Key bindings are inconsistent and all over the place.

Yes, this is very annoying. Even within GNOME applications it is anyone's guess what the shortcuts are. And they are not very discoverable since they have removed menus. To preserve vertical space. On 24" screens.

Debian just released a glibc that completely broke electron.

I take it that you are running Debian unstable?

It might be Wayland. I use a 4k display with Ubuntu gnome on xorg and it works fine. Just pick a resolution, dpi scaling and font size in tweaks that looks nice together and you're good to go.

Look into libunput gestures for the touchpad too if you get the chance.

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