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Its been experimental for a while and can be enabled manually via some properties changes.
It also looks like crap, they render at a lower res and scale up a bit poorly. I settled on just making my fonts scale fractionally and it looks better IMO.
I thought Gnome fractional scaling was rendering at a higher res and then downsampling? Did they change this recently?
Last time I checked they weren't super sampling. If they are now they're doing a terrible job scaling.
Were you running X11 apps? I think there's issues with low res on X11, but Wayland apps should be running at integer scaling and then scaling down to whatever fractional scale you've set it to.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI#Wayland
It is working fine on my setup.