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Are OLED monitors worth it without HDR? (sh.itjust.works)
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I've been rocking the original Acer X34 since 2014 and feel like upgrading again. Specifically the AW3423DWF tickles my fancy, but I'm struggling to decide whether or not it is worth it on Mint without HDR support.

I've only been running Linux for about a year and have gotten quite comfortable with Mint, but see that I'd need to change distro if I want to use the Plasma DE, which is the only (?) one with decent HDR support at the moment?

Do any of you run HDR capable monitors in Linux?
If yes: is it worth the purchase even if I stick to SDR mode or would you recommend re-rolling distro to get support today?
If I change it up, I'm looking at Fedora.

Thanks in advance!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I recently upgraded to a 4k monitor with HDR and shortly after that GNOME 48 came out with HDR and VRR support, so KDE Plasma and GNOME are the two desktops I know of that support HDR. I use GNOME and it works really well even though I do need to use gamescope if I want to play a Windows game with HDR and Firefox doesn't (yet?) support it on Linux. It definitely looks really cool but it's not a huge loss if you stick with Mint and just use SDR. It seems like you wanna get the monitor either way, so I'm pretty sure you can just use a live USB of something like Fedora to try HDR out without having to actually install anything. I'm just not sure what software you could try it out in because (at least to my knowledge) no browser supports HDR on Linux yet and you can't just install a whole game on a USB stick.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah I have a few extra SSD’s in the system, so maybe I’ll give dual booting a crack later on.

Thanks for sharing your experience!