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I tried it but stopped once I realised there was no hdr support :(
There is HDR support. At least Plasma 6 supports it.
How do you know and learn this stuff? i dont even know what "plasma" is and why you need it.
"Just use linux" doesnt help in this scenario i use it for productivity for the past 5 years but i havent felt ive really learned shit.
The same way you got your knowledge about Windows 🙂
But I dont know anything about windows drivers?
Some games support it on windows but not Linux. The list is small. That said, windows HDR support is garbage ime. I don't feel like there's a good option that's set and forget in any case.
Plasma/wayland integration is coming along but it's not there yet for HDR in gaming.
I just said screw it and live without it. Forgot i cared after 20min.
Unpopular opinion: HDR is overrated and causes more eye fatigue.
I guess it really is an unpopular opion. Lol. I have have eye fatigue issues with HDR too, though.
I also can't watch 3D for more than 5 minutes without getting a migraine. I don't know enough about how the display works to know why. Both feel like it is trying to fool my eyes and my brain doesn't like it. Maybe my eyes/brain get fatigued trying to play along. Some types of HDR seem to bother me more than others. I can watch an HDR movie mostly fine.
Was this a call for help or...?
Someone made a post about enabling HDR support on Linux a day or two ago. Times have changed, and you might want to look into it again.
(I don't have HDR monitors, but it works on my OLED Steam Deck.)
The Steam Deck is an exception to the rule, unfortunately. Game mode runs using Gamescope as the compositor, which allows it to directly manage rendering surfaces and support HDR output.
Support for HDR under a regular DE is still either nonexistent or a work-in-progress last I checked.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. It literally only exists on a single desktop environment and even then it's practically beta. On my TV it just shows everyhing as green and purple when I enable HDR.
I love linux and want it to keep improving but man people need to stop circlejerking linux so much when it comes to people using windows when it suits their needs
It's true that HDR support is virtually non-existent being limited to very recent KDE wayland with bleeding edge everything and AMD hardware. Basically .33 * 0.05 * 0.3 or like 1/2 of 1% of Linux users.
It's also true that is a weird ass thing to chose a desktop OS for.