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)

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    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

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      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.

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        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.

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        I always thought hdr was more of a preprocessing step to prevent clipping unrelated to display tech.

        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.