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!

  • Luca@feddit.itEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    I would love to get an OLED but the risk of burn in scares me to death. I don’t think I’ll ever get one until this issue is fixed.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      4·
      22 hours ago

      I don’t think I’ll ever get one until this issue is fixed.

      I mean, LEDs degrade over time. That’s just kind of a fact of life. LED lightbulbs, flashlights, etc. The LED in the backlight of an LCD monitor does too — it just degrades evenly across all pixels, so you don’t get a burn-in effect. Just makes the monitor get dimmer over time (though with LCD monitors that use regional backlighting, I guess some regions could get dimmer before others).

      I don’t think that there will be some technology to totally stop LEDs degrading. My understanding is that they’ve done various things over past years to try to mitigate it. I listed tandem LEDs below, which multiplies how long it takes them to degrade, lets them be run at lower power.

      Maybe someday someone could track power-on time per subpixel element and model decay of each for the long term and using that data, jack up power on each to compensate for degradation on a per-subpixel element level.

      EDIT: We also had burn-in on CRTs, and used those for ages. Didn’t prevent use of CRTs. I don’t know what the rate of burn-in relative to OLEDs was, but it was real.

      kagis

      https://lunduke.substack.com/p/what-video-games-are-burned-into

      A bunch of CRT arcade monitors with burn-in bad enough that you can see it with the monitor off.

      Just used screensavers or switched off monitors, and eventually, if a monitor became sufficiently problematic, tossed it and got a new one.

      All that being said, if I could have significantly-improved longevity on an OLED display, it’d be nice.

    • Bronzie@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      I have that too, but being a dad limits my gaming time so much that I reckon the monitor is obsolete, technology wise, by the time it becomes an issue.

      Time will tell I guess