And the new problems are way above most people’s ability to solve. The usual man on the street is not the usual lemmy user.
OTOH, I used to give away Little Old Lady computers to seniors. Slap Linux Lite on there, setup their email and browser, DONE. They would never call me back for support.
Honestly, that was the biggest difference for me, when I switched.
A bunch of my issues I’d had on Windows just went away, overnight. And, sure, I ran into other problems; but I would’ve on Windows, too, except I can usually resolve them on Linux.
My machine is so much more usable, just on a daily basis; and I’ve learned so much more about my computer naturally since I switched.
HDR works quite well, with a bit of tinkering naturally, for Steam games. (Fedora 42 using ProtonPlus to get GE-Proton-10 and modifying the launch parameters)
GNOME, what else.
AMD Ryzen censored 7 350 with Radeon 860M
32GB of RAM
Internal Display
The drivers for the GPU are unfortunately not in the LiveUSB image so I had to connect my laptop using a HDMI to VGA converter to my CRT monitor to install Fedora xD
I don’t use GNOME, but I’ll give those launch parameters a try and see if that works, thanks!
Edit: It didn’t work. The game could detect HDR, but the color was completely washed out. Probably Nvidia being Nvidia, but oddly enough HDR can work if I use gamescope as an intermediary.
would actually solve 90% of problems.
With Linux:
I don’t have forced updates.
I do have driver compile error when I update the kernel.
I don’t have spyware recording my screen.
I don’t have Discord record my screen when I want it to, either.
I don’t have ads for games in my launcher.
I don’t have HDR for games in my Steam library.
Etc.
And the new problems are way above most people’s ability to solve. The usual man on the street is not the usual lemmy user.
OTOH, I used to give away Little Old Lady computers to seniors. Slap Linux Lite on there, setup their email and browser, DONE. They would never call me back for support.
I mean tbf most of these Linux issues are pretty easy to fix/avoid.
Honestly, that was the biggest difference for me, when I switched.
A bunch of my issues I’d had on Windows just went away, overnight. And, sure, I ran into other problems; but I would’ve on Windows, too, except I can usually resolve them on Linux.
My machine is so much more usable, just on a daily basis; and I’ve learned so much more about my computer naturally since I switched.
HDR works quite well, with a bit of tinkering naturally, for Steam games. (Fedora 42 using ProtonPlus to get GE-Proton-10 and modifying the launch parameters)
What GPU and DE? It’s been a complete nightmare for me, and only the gamescope WSI seems to actually work.
GNOME, what else. AMD Ryzen censored 7 350 with Radeon 860M 32GB of RAM Internal Display
The drivers for the GPU are unfortunately not in the LiveUSB image so I had to connect my laptop using a HDMI to VGA converter to my CRT monitor to install Fedora xD
Launch options are: PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 %command%
I don’t use GNOME, but I’ll give those launch parameters a try and see if that works, thanks!
Edit: It didn’t work. The game could detect HDR, but the color was completely washed out. Probably Nvidia being Nvidia, but oddly enough HDR can work if I use gamescope as an intermediary.
What DE do you use?
KDE Plasma 6. HDR is supposed to be supported and I do have it enabled under the monitor settings…
Yeah, I would really recommend you switch over to Gnome for things like that. KDE is just a buggy mess of a DE
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