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Microsoft responds to LG monitors installing McAfee ads on Windows (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 10 points 3 months ago (4 children)

That's a bunch of words, but they don't really answer your question about why a monitor needs 3rd party drivers.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Display Port has fancy features like Display Stream Compression where the driver compresses the image going to the screen.

    The solution would be for MS to move those features into Windows rather than allow manufacturers flexibility in implementation. MS would get bad publicity for monopoly and then have to deal with fixing Windows for every off brand monitor because the manufacturer didn't follow the standard exactly.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    Long time Linux user here.

    Microsoft would fuck up their implementation of the standard, monitors would all be designed around Microsoft bugs and then OSs that implement the standard correctly have to break their stuff so that Windows monitors will work.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    How about we don't compress our local Fricken wired video to our monitor. I swear I just want modern dumb VGA again - having to fight the auto smart crap is such a pita.

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