Wondering if my next upgrade should be an OLED screen or not. It looks amazing, but how is the current compatability with Linux these days? Anyone with one of these sexy screens that would like to share their experiences?

  • What screen do you have?
  • TV or Monitor Screen?
  • Do you have multiple screens?
  • What brand / model is recommended?

Lemmy know! 🌻

  • Domi@lemmy.secnd.meEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    I have an Alienware AW3423DWF since about a year now with about 4000 hours on it. Very happy with it, won’t be going back to anything else until another technology with per-pixel lighting comes along. I also have a Dell with VA panel as second monitor and it looks like 90s technology compared to the OLED panel.

    The only bad thing I can say about the monitor or OLED in general is that the dimming is fairly aggressive, i.e. on bright scenes you will not even get close to the advertised brightness. Makes the OLED monitors pretty much unusable in HDR for desktop usage. Mostly unnoticable in gaming and movies.

    There also is some text fuzzing with high contrast text, not distracting for me but might be for others.

    but how is the current compatability with Linux these days?

    No issues here on Linux. With Plasma 6 you can even do HDR properly. Many games work with the latest Proton-TKG on Wayland and the HDR layer, some still need gamescope to properly work. mpv does movies/shows in HDR with the HDR layer, no issues.

    Always check out rtings.com for their monitor ratings, they do the most thorough tests of all:

    https://www.rtings.com/monitor and https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/best/oled

    • Klaymore@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Are you using native Wine Wayland for HDR? I’d been using Gamescope but I’ve been having some issues with it recently.

      • Domi@lemmy.secnd.meEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Most of the time, yes. I try first with Wine’s wayland driver and if that doesn’t work I switch to gamescope.

        • Klaymore@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          How do you run games using Wine Wayland? I tried using the registry edit with Proton-TKG as well as system wine but I haven’t gotten it working yet.

          • Domi@lemmy.secnd.meEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago
            • Make sure you have the Vulkan layers installed: https://github.com/Zamundaaa/VK_hdr_layer
            • Download the latest Proton-TKG (Wine master) from ProtonUp-QT
            • Start the game you want to launch with it at least once
            • Search for it with protontricks and take note of the APPID: protontricks -s NAME
            • Set the registry entry: protontricks -c 'wine reg.exe add HKCU\\Software\\Wine\\Drivers /v Graphics /d x11,wayland' APPID
            • Set the launch arguments in Steam to: ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 DXVK_HDR=1 DISPLAY= %command%
            • Switch the Proton version to the Proton-TKG you just downloaded
            • Enable HDR in KDE settings and launch the game

            Some games crash on start, anti-cheat does not work and some games don’t look right. So make sure to check that everything looks good once you’re ingame.

            • Klaymore@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              6 months ago

              Thanks! I managed to get it working in some games and it seems to output HDR. Sadly it doesn’t seem to support fractional scaling (at least with two monitors), and since I use 175% scale that messes it up. Gamescope seems to work pretty well though, both for HDR and for fractional scaling.