• ohshit604@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Let me guess, proprietary drivers cause this and the open source or generic drivers lack “functionality”.

    If it turns on, reaches its peek resolution and refresh rate that is good enough for me, I genuinely can care less for HDR or the nitty gritty features.

    • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de
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      21 hours ago

      Monitors don’t need drivers. Your GPU needs drivers, and you might need color correction for your monitor.

      Microslop decided that any device that is plugged in might need drivers. They allow device manufacturers to specify an arbitrary program to be downloaded and executed by Windows Update, any time a device they make is plugged in.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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      24 hours ago

      Old monitors need it for absolutely nothing, like my 2020 LG. Every feature works out of the box, because it has to over display cables.

      I think at most it adds an ICC profile, but it’s not matched to the panel anyway and you can just install that seperately.