I’m so done with win11, and currently 12 of my 15 machines are linux anyway, but AFAIK HDR (on nvidia gpu) is still impossible? Are you guys all on AMD or just not using hdr for gaming/media? So instead of relying on outdated info, just asking the pros :)
Yes, you seem to be missing actual HDR :-) It looks washed out and desaturated if you’d view SDR content while HDR is enabled. Or the monitor can’t. Or whatever else. I even have problems with jellyfin on windows to get it right. That things needs a separate app to actually work. So HDR’s the only good thing about win11, as it mostly works.
I really wanna finally ditch that horrorshow, but going back to SDR feels like going back from 4K to 480p.
I suggest you strip Windows to the bone (including Defender), dual boot Linux, and delegate Windows as a “HDR media OS”
This is what I do, and it works well. Sufficiently neutered, Windows if really quick and out of the way.
It’s already neutered, but dual-booting really isn’t an option. As long as win remains a bootable option, why even add another one, i see no benefit in running both and wasting time switching regularly. Soon i wouldn’t even switch and ditch HDR :)
I don’t really see the logic to that, as switching is near effortless. It takes a couple of seconds to reboot and select the other OS. Ditching HDR, on the other hand, is painful.
Each to their own though.
I want to leave win, if i’d still have to keep it (and not as a very specific vm), why goes through the hassles (everything is already working now) of booting anything else? win is still there and still has to be maintained. I would not gain anything but double the work.
You’d gain HDR!
Windows is nearly effortless to maintain if you only use it for entertainment.
Maybe we just have different priorities, but right now, I’d be miserable and wasting so much time if I was stuck on Linux only, even though I use Linux like 90% of the time. Some media and some games just won’t look right.
And to emphasize, it would take sooo much time to massage this issue on Linux. Dual booting saves me a ton of maintenance and tweaking.
Err, I already main windows (for my rig that is, not the servers). I have HDR and everything else, i would not gain anything i have not right now with dualbooting linux. Except the illusion I have ditched windows while being on linux :)
Everything else i could somehow cope with the loss, replace or code from scratch for linux, except HDR :(