My New Montior is Pushing me to Start Fresh on Kubuntu (Again)

I got a bigger and better monitor recently, and I’ve been exploring calibrating it on both my Mac and my Linux desktop for the last week or so. It started out as a necessity: at full resolution (3840 x 2160), the text was just too small for me to read. Since I hated the fact that things looked “off” at a lower resolution, and the options for my new external display on the Mac were painfully minimal, I quickly found out about BetterDisplay. A couple of days later I was already reading about the differences between Retina and HiDPI (mostly a marketing term by Apple, though Retina does specify a higher number of HiDPI, High Dots Per Inch, which hey, should be PPI, Pixels Per Inch, but that’s another thing), how to sync brightness between my monitors, found out that TrueTone is a whole Apple thing (but Night Shift isn’t, mostly anyway) and wrote myself notes on how to set things up. I don’t know how I found the time while still researching my recent Emacs stuff recently, which I’m still…