Planning to dual-boot with Windows either Debian or Mint on my OLED laptop. Are the tools that I have on Windows really useful? (pixel refresh, pixel shifting)
Planning to dual-boot with Windows either Debian or Mint on my OLED laptop. Are the tools that I have on Windows really useful? (pixel refresh, pixel shifting)
HDR is probably something you want to use with an OLED and quick search of current status of HDR on Linux shows it’s only on KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland… which might be in beta this year. Proton has a beta for vulkan games for AMD GPUs.
For me the HDR issue is still a dealbreaker for recreational use of Linux.
Off topic, but why do you want hdr on OLED?
Because your content’s color and light intensity data, and the monitor’s ability to turn off individual pixels when they’re not needed, are not the same thing. If anything, these two go best together
Do OLED panels typically have more than 8 bit per color brightness levels? I always thought hdr was more of a preprocessing step to prevent clipping unrelated to display tech.
HDR means High Dynamic Range. The range of values on an SDR display (Standard Dynamic Range) is 16-235 but the range of values on an HDR display is 0-255, that means that the color “black” on an HDR display is actually black and not “dark-gray”.
This is dumbed-down because I don’t know the more technical stuff.
Also it has nothing to do to “color saturation” (wrongly called “vividness”). That’s a dumb marketing thing since you can do the same using every display in this world.
That’s tone mapping, HDR is actually having more than 8 bits and often also more colorful colours than normal. I think 10 bits are common.
I don’t really care about HDR. So I guess I’ll dual boot with Mint after I do a fresh install of Windows.
HDR works in gamescope (and mpv) right now when started from a TTY.
It’s not ideal but since so few games I play support HDR it is enough for me until Plasma 6 comes out.