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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

Neat theme.

everything has been running flawlessly.

I have to ask though: Do these monitors not have HDR or VRR and run at the same refresh rate?

Those are the things why I usually wouldn't recommend Mint for high-end gaming rig like yours right now: None of the supported DEs are really ready for Wayland and therefore stuck with those problems (for now).

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I see.

    HDR depends a lot on the monitor I guess. Mine isn't really brighter in HDR mode than normal because it's an OLED, so the big difference is that the darks can get darker and more detailed as opposed to the brighter brights on HDR LCD/LED panels.

    As for VRR, I'm a huge fan of it and I can't recommend it enough. Particularly on high refresh rate monitors and demanding game it's a big win not having to tweak your settings so that the framerate always stays above the monitors specified refresh rate. No tearing. No penalty from not reaching the required framerate. Just a smooth presentation.

    You can actually use VRR on X11, but only on for single monitor and it will introduce tearing on the others.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    KDE suports HDR just fine. I believe both Hyprland and Gnome do as well. Those seem to be the most modern DEs generally speaking. Gnome and KDE being the most popular as well.

    Edit: Just realized you said mint specifically. Mint are behind the times sadly.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, that's why I'm currently only recommending Mint to people who don't do any gaming. It's kind of a shame that Mint doesn't have a KDE spin. It would be my unconditional beginner distro otherwise.

    Personally I run CachyOS + KDE with native Wayland and HDR enabled system-wide. It's kind of amazing how I don't even need to clog the launch parameters of every game with a bunch of variables and tools like gamescope anymore. I just have to hit launch and all the fancy features just work.

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