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Excellent form factor with an unusable ppi. I lost all my faith in non-Apple companies being able to produce usable displays. I hate macOS, but I have no choice. The only alternative is Linux+UP3218K, but it requires Nvidia graphics (no-go on Linux, for me), and the build quality is spotty and poor...

At least now we have a Linux laptop with a usable display though, the soon to be released ThinkPad T14s Gen 3 will have the option of a 16:10, 2880x1800, 242ppi display, usable in Linux with 2x scaling.

Of course that laptop has other problems, but at least we have the first alternative to a MacBook in over a decade for people who care about Linux and displays.



>Linux+UP3218K, but it requires Nvidia graphics

Care to explain? I found some articles from 2017 claiming AMD cards can display 8k60fps.


It didn't work a couple of years ago, at least in Linux, with the open source driver. I don't know what the situation is nowadays.


Fixed in linux 5.5(jan 2020) according to a phoronix article.


That is excellent to hear! I really, really want a Linux workstation using Dell UP3218K. Sadly so few people have this monitor, and even fewer use Linux, that it's quite the financial gamble to know what actually works and what doesn't. I could return the monitor, of course, but then I end up with a newly bought machine without any display I could use...




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