HDR
Perroboc
joined 11 months ago
Wow, this is great! Thanks!
I bought an oled monitor, and returned it.
- HDR is not enabled in mainstream kernel, and requires to hack and compile a custom kernel (6.2)
- Even if you compile the kernel, the session you might be using doesn’t support it. I think only a gamescope session does.
- If HDR is not your concern, the know that OLED monitors don’t work with 3 pixels, but more in different configurations. LG are WOLED (RWBG, 4 in a non standard distribution), while Samsung uses a triangle!. What this means is that fonts will be displayed awfully because they’re programmed to be displayed in RGB configurations.
- LG presents artifacts on the left and right side of the fonts because of RWBG config.
- Samsung presents artifacts on top and bottom because of the triangle.
- This happens both in windows and Linux. Something to do with freetype.
So yeah, I think no platform is ready for oled monitors just yet (maybe macOS?). I switched to a cheaper LED gaming monitor.
I guess you’re right. Maybe endeavour has something along those lines.
The usual pacman -Syu
I think you're right. For the average desktop user, it's more about being able to use the software they need, without a terminal.
I think that desktop in linux has advanced a lot in the last few years, and now I'm running my games on a KDE desktop, too! But I keep having to go to the terminal to do stuff I took for granted on other systems, like OS security updates.
Started using Kona Ike dice it’s what came by default with KDE. Tried kitty, alacritty, foot (I think that was the name, on Wayland) and iterm2 on Mac… and came back to konsole in KDE and terminal.app in Mac.
Truth is I just need a simple terminal. Kitty and Alacritty and other terminals continuously had me in that’s-not-the-right-way, configuring terminal colors through ssh, or tmux compatability (kitty even says that you shouldn’t use tmux, and screen splitting should be done at the terminal, not in the server).
At the end of the day, I use whatever is installed where I work. So far, all “default” terminals seem to be enough.
I’d tell you… if I had it!