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)

  • Perroboc@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 months ago

    I bought an oled monitor, and returned it.

    1. HDR is not enabled in mainstream kernel, and requires to hack and compile a custom kernel (6.2)
    2. Even if you compile the kernel, the session you might be using doesn’t support it. I think only a gamescope session does.
    3. 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.
      1. LG presents artifacts on the left and right side of the fonts because of RWBG config.
      2. Samsung presents artifacts on top and bottom because of the triangle.
      3. 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.

    • q47tx@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      10 months ago

      Im thinking QLED. Really all I care about is nicer colors. I dont have any complaints about my current OLED laptop display other than having to worry about burn-in.