Yeah, that’s the only way I can see this work. I use Linux with the Mesa drivers, that are part of the kernel, anyway, so there’s not really a need for me to make driver backups.

How would that even work? But aside from that, I should probably upgrade my GPU before this goes into effect, even if the GPU I want will probably not be affected.

But they’re rich, so it’s just a smart business move

Tf does tankie even mean at this point? As a communist, I’m not on the side of any state, I’m on the side of the people dying needlessly in both countries. Anyone who identifies themselves as a communist and has more than 2 brain cells should know that this isn’t a football match where you root for your favorite team. Aside from the fact that russia isn’t the USSR anymore anyway, it’s just another capitalist country. Both governments suck but the Ukrainian one wasn’t at fault for this war at all.

I recently upgraded to a 4k monitor with HDR and shortly after that GNOME 48 came out with HDR and VRR support, so KDE Plasma and GNOME are the two desktops I know of that support HDR. I use GNOME and it works really well even though I do need to use gamescope if I want to play a Windows game with HDR and Firefox doesn’t (yet?) support it on Linux. It definitely looks really cool but it’s not a huge loss if you stick with Mint and just use SDR. It seems like you wanna get the monitor either way, so I’m pretty sure you can just use a live USB of something like Fedora to try HDR out without having to actually install anything. I’m just not sure what software you could try it out in because (at least to my knowledge) no browser supports HDR on Linux yet and you can’t just install a whole game on a USB stick.

Yes, I think it’s called Yukkake