Comment by adgjlsfhk1

3 years ago

unfortunately linux HDR is pretty much completely absent. That said, Wayland slowly looks like it's getting there.

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toastal  3 years ago

X11 supports 10-bit SDR… which Wayland doesn’t

  • JyrkiAlakuijala  3 years ago

    It would be nice if everything was non tone-mapped HDR all the time for software, and the windowing system or the monitor would do the (local) tone mapping.

    • kllrnohj  3 years ago

      No, you don't want that. You want your windowing system & UI/graphics layers working in display native range (see eg, Apple's EDR). The consistency of appearance of the SDR range is too important to leave it up to unknown tone mapping.

      Also it's too power expensive to have your display in HDR if you're only showing SDR UIs, which not only is the common reality but will continue to be so for the foreseeable future.

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