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How are gnome supposed to improve hardware support? Do gnome devs write drivers and such at the present time¿?
Variable refresh rate (VRR), HDR, OLED (e. g. I'd like the panel to become grey and move items around a bit to lessen burn-in) all involve GNOME for hardware support.
Yeah I forgot about monitor support. Guess that's pretty important. But is pixel shifting gnome's responsibility or should that be done through monitor firmware so that it's OS agnostic¿?
Your're right, ideally wear reduction should probably be done by the display itself. But considering how little manufacuters often care about OS-agnostic approaches, it might be necessary to have software workarounds?