I got reminded yesterday that Emacs is not a proper GTK application after installing Windows 11 to make use of its built-in support for Linux GUI apps running in WSL. Windows uses Wayland/Weston and the results are great with native GTK apps like GEdit, but unfortunately HiDPI scaling doesn’t work properly with Emacs. Bummer!

The upcoming Emacs 28 should fix this, as it introduces a pure GTK front-end (a.k.a. pgtk). I’m wondering whether to build Emacs 28 from source or not, so I can get it sooner. In the mean time my old setup based on X410 continues to work really great and I guess I’ll stick to it for now.

At any rate - it seems that the ultimate Emacs experience on Windows is right around the corner.