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Yes that is my blind spot that I have created. I go into a store, I see g-sync is nvidia, and assume it won’t work. I have been avoiding stuff that I know doesn’t work or suspect won’t within the decade, for decades. I’ve been recommending friends and family avoid certain specific brands/tech buzzwords on the basis that it probably won’t work in a few years when the maker decides to drop support for version 1 and similar scenarios, or the ‘surprise’ real life case of windows really crossing the line on how shitty they can get away with and making people want to switch and coming to me to ask if this or that linux distro would work for them.
FFS. I mentioned G Sync because they have a logo. VRR is so common an ubiquitous that there is a VESA certification for it now and a default standard for it for both HDMI and Display Port, no Nvidia required. It doesn’t matter if you have G Sync, AMD’s Freesync (which is an open standard) and can be used by any brand of GPU or generic VRR, it.
You having had your head in a hole about what the average display features are in 2026 for even an entry level gaming display doesn’t mean they aren’t common, important or widely supported. When Nintendo has adopted a universal technology and you haven’t you know you’re behind the tech curve.
For the record, plenty of Linux distros have full support for HDR and VRR. Mint just happens to… not.
I have a display with HDR and VRR but VRR is fucked on all same and older generation oled panels I found out later, and the brightness flickers at dumb times so I can’t use it regardless. There’s a very specific case in which it works iirc, but it would require consideration for every game.
But apart from me and one guy several tax brackets above me, everyone I know uses ~2016 basic model tvs and monitors from fbm or similar era gaming displays from friends that upgraded. Some of them have old HDR capable displays but I feel like oled without HDR beats lcd with HDR any day. The average gamer still uses pretty shit tier hardware and GPU is definitely a generally preferred upgrade over display when you can get old 1080p’s free or 4k for cheap used, lack of buzzwords be damned.
Yes that is my blind spot that I have created. I go into a store, I see g-sync is nvidia, and assume it won’t work. I have been avoiding stuff that I know doesn’t work or suspect won’t within the decade, for decades. I’ve been recommending friends and family avoid certain specific brands/tech buzzwords on the basis that it probably won’t work in a few years when the maker decides to drop support for version 1 and similar scenarios, or the ‘surprise’ real life case of windows really crossing the line on how shitty they can get away with and making people want to switch and coming to me to ask if this or that linux distro would work for them.
FFS. I mentioned G Sync because they have a logo. VRR is so common an ubiquitous that there is a VESA certification for it now and a default standard for it for both HDMI and Display Port, no Nvidia required. It doesn’t matter if you have G Sync, AMD’s Freesync (which is an open standard) and can be used by any brand of GPU or generic VRR, it.
You having had your head in a hole about what the average display features are in 2026 for even an entry level gaming display doesn’t mean they aren’t common, important or widely supported. When Nintendo has adopted a universal technology and you haven’t you know you’re behind the tech curve.
For the record, plenty of Linux distros have full support for HDR and VRR. Mint just happens to… not.
I have a display with HDR and VRR but VRR is fucked on all same and older generation oled panels I found out later, and the brightness flickers at dumb times so I can’t use it regardless. There’s a very specific case in which it works iirc, but it would require consideration for every game.
But apart from me and one guy several tax brackets above me, everyone I know uses ~2016 basic model tvs and monitors from fbm or similar era gaming displays from friends that upgraded. Some of them have old HDR capable displays but I feel like oled without HDR beats lcd with HDR any day. The average gamer still uses pretty shit tier hardware and GPU is definitely a generally preferred upgrade over display when you can get old 1080p’s free or 4k for cheap used, lack of buzzwords be damned.