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I actually do this with NixOS impermanence lol. The things I need are symlinked from a different partition and the stuff I don't need automatically gets wiped clean.

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You can also run the game at 1080p and use FSR to upscale it to native resolution, that's what I often do on my 4k monitor.

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I have a Mini-LED HDR monitor (Acer XV275K P3) and it looks great. It gets super bright with black blacks. I didn't want to risk burn-in, it covers the full 1000 nits that most HDR content expects, and it was only $550 which was quite a steal. There's occasionally a little blooming in dark scenes in movies, but in games it never gets that dark and there's mostly very bright things instead.

I have HDR working on Plasma 6 with an AMD gpu on NixOS, although recently Gamescope/Steam has been a bit bugged. MPV still plays movies perfectly though. I even set up inverse tone mapping so SDR videos get converted into HDR, which looks a bit better than normal SDR imo.

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My current MPV config is here (in the NixOS syntax but it should be understandable). The profile is what applies the SDR->HDR effect, only if the video is in SDR.

I have target-peak set to 550 nits which seems okay, but I have control + scroll wheel bound to turn it up and down. If you go to 200 or below it seems to disable the effect, which is good for 2D animated content. I also generally turn the saturation up to like 15 or 30 or something since it can look washed out. Gamma looks best at 0 generally, but in dark scenes to combat blooming I might turn it up to like 5 or 10. I haven't messed too much with the tone mapping curve but I'm using what the documentation says is recommended so it seems good.

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

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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.

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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.

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I believe Syncthing isn't on iOS.

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On System Settings’ Night Light page, the time input fields for manual time mode are no longer a nightmare, because they’ve been replaced with a set of spinboxes (Natalie Clarius, Plasma 6.1)

Oh thank goodness, that page has always felt a bit weird.

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I can play games and watch videos in HDR though

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What game is this?

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If you can’t fix it you could try running the game inside Gamescope, it can help with weird alt+tab issues.

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Switched like a year ago or so, not really any difference on my AMD pc and Intel laptop. Now I need wayland for HDR on Plasma 6 so there’s no way I could go back personally, as well as the great multi-monitor and fractional scaling handling.

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There’s browser extensions for it

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I’d suggest something with KDE Plasma, such as Kubuntu or OpenSUSE or something.

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You mean… a prompt that needs a second click to run the program?

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I would avoid Razer mice, I got two Mamba Elites and both of their mouse wheels are broken/bugged (if you scroll in one direction it scrolls back and forth, or scrolls twice when you want to scroll once). My sister got a Deathadder Elite and its mouse wheel is completely broken.

I picked up an Anker vertical mouse for like $12 from a used PC parts store and it’s been working just as well in my opinion, pretty comfortable and still has a working scroll wheel.

Of course you could also buy a drawing tablet and set it to mouse/relative mode and play with that, which I did for a while, but the lack of a scroll wheel stops you from playing some games.

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In the developer settings I set all the animations to twice as fast (half as long) so they feel snappier.

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I’ve heard you can say “octopodes” as well

Usually I expect to have to troubleshoot problems with Linux

I’ve been daily driving Pop!_OS for about two years. I’ve had to troubleshoot and look up how to solve problems here and there, but it has largely been pain free. About eight months ago I had to dual boot Windows 10 because my wife wanted to play Hogwarts and for the life of me I couldn’t get Linux to stream to the client...

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Big fan of Strawberry, the UI looks pretty bad by default (on windows) but since I’m on KDE Plasma it follows my system Qt color scheme which looks nice. Still not super fancy but it works well. For managing my music I mostly just use a file browser and kid3qt or picard for metadata editing.

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Wait… you can use a variable before you declare it?

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I rate movies on Letterboxd and it seems pretty popular. There’s also ratings on TMDB (The Movie DataBase) but there aren’t as many reviews.

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I’ve been using Pipewire on NixOS for over a year and it’s worked great. Idk if NixOS would be good for you though cause it’s pretty hard to learn, but it is really solid.

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