<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yagodragon</author><text>What really sets me off with linux DE&amp;#x27;s is how poorly they handle dpi scaling on external monitors. I recently bought a 24&amp;quot; 2560 × 1440 monitor for my 15.6 laptop running Ubuntu Mate 18.04. This is what i went through just to make it work.&lt;p&gt;1. Plugged the hdmi, everything looks so small. 
2. Mate desktop had HiDPI support but only by a scaling factor of 2. Now everything looks very large. 
3. I have to manually change the fonts dpi settings. Chrome and some other apps look good but the menus, file manager and firefox are still upscaled.
4. I manually change layout.css.devPixelsPerPx in about:config to make firefox look good.&lt;p&gt;Finally, the result looks very unpolished. The menus are still largely upscaled and some apps like vlc won&amp;#x27;t even scale at all. My laptop&amp;#x27;s screen can&amp;#x27;t be used as a secondary screen because everything is upscaled, not to mention that i have to manually undo all those steps to revert everything back to &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; for my 15.6&amp;quot; laptop screen. I eventually wrote some scripts with dconf to automate the proccess but it&amp;#x27;s just not good.&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have experience with external monitors and linux desktops? How does xfce or kde handle this? I tried gnome that supports fractional scaling and it&amp;#x27;s way better than mate. Now the problem is that i only have 8GB of ram and gnome shell is known to be a ram hog.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update</title><url>https://bluesabre.org/2019/04/18/xubuntu-19-04-the-exhaustive-update/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>virtualpain</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure whether Xubuntu includes KDE&amp;#x27;s stuff or people here confused between Xubuntu and Kubuntu?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update</title><url>https://bluesabre.org/2019/04/18/xubuntu-19-04-the-exhaustive-update/</url></story>