Thanks, will try!

If you really are afraid of that (well, I would), why go there at all? Just for some money? I wouldn’t trade safety for a lil cash.

From what i’ve gathered here so far, KDE seems to be more hdr-friendly, yes. But good to hear it kinda works, even with nvidia!

lol, ok that’s a solid reason. Though i now have 5 x 1gbit, i started with 3600baud back in the day. Bandwith IS an issue :-)

Great, thanks!

lol, me too, but only for CPU and only recently :)

Would’ve prefered a debian-based, but that surely is a point for cachy. Plus it’s german/eu. Does it do multiple monitors stress-free too? Thanks!

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 :(

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.

Sounds great, but…AMD, right?

5 physical, rest VMs. I’m not crazy :-) Wasn’t important to me either until i just switched because the new monitor could. Now i wouldn’t wanna go back as it would feel like from 4K=>480p. Couldn’t care less about energy-efficiency though, i already waste an 8-person-average (according to my provider) for my hobbies alone :)

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 use macrium reflect (which i would deerly miss on linux), so any mistake is just seconds away, and a complete restore in mere minutes. But as long as i HAVE to use win for hdr in games/media, i do have to use win. so dual-booting saves none of the risk unless win goes into a vm. wouldn’t even need another one, my domain controllers (and dns and such) are already win-vms.

Nah, I don’t wanna spend more time fiddling than actually doing something, so no arch for me :) Although cachyos is based on arch IIRC. either way, good to know!

Thanks!

Damn. Nah, as long as i’d still need windows, I see totally no benefit in dual-booting. I could live with a VM for the banking stuff or so, but dualbooting. Meh :( And yes, it’s already sucky enough on win. Though win11 made it better.

Thanks for your reply!

Sounds great, besides the AMD part. So it might work, but not with my nvidia :( Thanks!

With no device it sure won’t phase you at all :) I do really regret having made the hdr-switch back then.

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.

Instead of bashing AI, I’d be pissed at another device uploading my everything into some cloud of some us-based company. Who wants that? At least make it with Local AI. Oh right, that won’t do for the next 15yrs because of the gargantuan resources needed.

But…people use x, WhatsApp, Facebook and google and Apple phones… So why not another privacy-destroyer with the added benefit of…I don’t know. Tell me what I’m looking at?

I use it. But it’s only half of the solution. There’s still the phone itself and it’s from the worst of the worst 😑