To get more screen real estate, you could keep your maximum native resolution, and decrease the font sizes:
- Check current font sizes with:
gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.desktop.interface | grep font-name
- Descrease them to your liking with:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name 'Adwaita Mono 10' &&\
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface document-font-name 'Adwaita Sans 10' &&\
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name 'Adwaita Sans 10'
(replacing the size of the fonts as needed).