Thanks To Valve, HDR Beginning To Work For Linux Gaming

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Thanks To Valve, HDR Beginning To Work For Linux Gaming

Thanks to Valve's incredible work on Steam Play and investing in low-level Linux graphics stack improvements, the latest milestone being achieved is HDR (High Dynamic Range) support beginning to work...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-HDR-Linux-Gaming-Begins

[tildearrow]

This is huge! Hopefully we'll see it for video playback soon as well.

[Zeioth]

Way earlier than expected!! I'm still assimilating the fact I can use 10 bits on sway. It looks great.

[avis]

It's all exciting until you understand that without corporate money and real funding Linux has little to no chance of achieving major milestones or becoming a real alternative to Windows/MacOS. The Linux kernel became mainly a commercial project over a decade ago and nowadays over 95% of contributions to it are from corporations. Gnome and Wayland are almost entirely on the shoulders of RedHat employees.

[Volta]

It's all exciting until you understand that without corporate money and real funding Linux has little to no chance of achieving major milestones or becoming a real alternative to Windows/MacOS. The Linux kernel became mainly a commercial project over a decade ago and nowadays over 95% of contributions to it are from corporations.

Linux has no alternatives. Macos with its miserable market share? Good joke.

[avis]

Linux has no alternatives. Macos with its miserable market share? Good joke.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share

At 5.53% vs. 1.11% for Linux.

Not sure what you meant by "Linux has no alternatives". On supercomputers and in Androids (as a tiny part of them)? Yes. Everywhere else? Not sure about that.

[V1tol]

Linux has no alternatives. Macos with its miserable market share? Good joke.

I believe macOS would have much bigger gaming marketshare if they won't be such ricks and implemented Vulkan - the main reason Proton not exists on macOS nowadays.

[discordian]

Linux has no alternatives. Macos with its miserable market share? Good joke.

Hmm, sure you want to compare marketshare using Linux??

I'd settle with a DE that's not broken or terribly laggy.. and often both. If embedded/Realtime wasn't a hobby if mine I would run a Linux DE in a VM (or not at all).

and for the smartasses: yes, that's not a problem of "Linux the Kernel", but the software stack for desktop systems.

My holdout for not owning a Mac is it's closed ecosystem, and there is hope the EU will crack that open.
It would be a terrific system otherwise.

[xcom]

I don't own and I do not plan to buy a HDR monitor but it is still nice!

[Danny3]

This is huge! Hopefully we'll see it for video playback soon as well.

I agree!
I'm waiting for the HDR support for video playback too, actually more than for gaming.
Especially since