I’m looking at buying a Samsung U28R550 monitor quite cheap and wondering if there would be any issues running it on Linux.
Kubuntu
Geforce GTX 960
16 gb ram, i7
Thanks.
Morning!
I have the U28E590. (Mine has a TN panel, yours an IPS panel.)
For me, it works just fine together with the bunch
of distros that I have played with since I bought it.
It is easy to calibrate, using Argyll and a ColorMunki Photo.
Only “problems” I have had concerns my Nvidia GFX,
which does not go well with certain distros. But that has
nothing to do with the monitor.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=difference+U28E590+versus+U28R550&t=midori&ia=web
Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden
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Thanks for that info!
I bought it and it’s working great. Don’t think I could ever go back to 1920 x 1080 now. Question: While I can increase the size of most text with Ctrl +, the menu text is small. Fortunately I’m nearsighted so I can move in closer, but is there a way in Linux to increase the size of text in menus etc?
Morning!
Yes – but it depends on what distro/DE you use.
I am not up to date regarding your kubuntu, but
some years ago, people complained that it was
not especially good at handling hidpi. Things
may have changed since then — simply perform
a web search for
kubuntu hidpi
Check what your settings|display might offer.
Other distros even come with a special toggle
Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden
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I don’t have a high dpi display to test, but you should find a scale factor in the display settings. There has been a big push lately to make high dpi work fine under KDE, but depending on your Kubuntu version you may not see it until Plasma updates to the latest version.
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That worked. I scaled it to 1.7 and everything works fine, although I could probably cut it back to 1.3 to1.5. Thanks to both you and @guille2306.
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