This may be controversial, and may also be totally wrong (I’m no display expert), but I have a 55” Hisense U8K QLED and am still legitimately shocked at how black the blacks are. I can’t even tell if the screen is on or off if it’s just showing my black background. No light bleed or blooming, and inky rich blacks with incredibly smooth gradients. This screen convinced me that I’ll never need to shell out for an OLED.
Edit: in case you’re curious, I use it as the third screen in my PC setup, running at 144hz. It’s also my first experience with high refresh rates, and it has been a joy. Oh and the nits on this thing are something else. Ever been blinded by a sunrise in 4K HDR? It’s awesome.
Perfect black is the best thing for movies, especially dark ones. Of all the content I’d want to see on OLED, movies are near the top. No way I’d massively downgrade to an IPS LCD for movies.
LG B6 w/ over 12k hours on it, probably 6k hours of just movies. Completely spoiled me, I can’t switch back.
I just swapped out my ~5 year old LG C9 for a new LG C3 due to a slight amount of burn in. It was in the center of the screen and while nobody else could see it I could.
It's also our main TV.
For gaming it's amazing, incredibly low latency and the pixel smudging from poor pixel response rate is gone, so it's more like a CRT in that respect.
I can't comment on Linux, but other than poor support for HDR I don't see what would be different on Linux at this point.
Samsung Odyssey G8 OLED. 34" ultra wide
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Yes, this monitor plus my living room TV plus VR headset. Things were unreliable and buggy until I sent it into Samsung for repair and it works well now. The software on the monitor (lol) is silly though. Don't use it, don't agree to their EULA.
My issue with Samsung is they required me to ship the monitor to them for repair instead of sending someone to my home. It's thin ultra wide and curved and I was scared it would get damaged in shipping. They would have done it in home for a TV, but refused to do the same for this very large monitor 😓
Even SDR games look great on it. Deep dark blacks, rich colors, and incredible pixel response times make games more enjoyable for me. And for 21:9 ratio movies and tv shows omg.
Lg oled. Looks amazing. Will never go back to normal lcd. BUT some games will result in but in. Eg vampire survivors has left a perm red affected burn-in from its health bar placement in the middle of the screen. So be wary.
I have been using my LG OLED TV as my gaming monitor as well for about 2 years now. Haven't had any issues with burn in on mine. I run the pixel refresh utility once every few months, and typically don't play a game for more than a 3~4 hour stretch of time, so I think I get enough screen variety that it hasn't been an issue.
If you haven't run the Pixel refresher tool, try giving that a go for a few hours and see if it helps with your burn in. It could just be 'stuck' and not actually burnt.
As far as the LG, I mainly picked it for the VRR and 4k120 HDR support. Games look great, and It's also my main TV for movies, which also look great.
It largely doesn’t make sense to get small SSDs at this point. 500 gig drives aren’t that much more than 250 gig drives. And not only do you get twice the storage, but usually better performance too.
Micro center has a 512 gig NVME SSD for $40, or $35 for a sata drive. A 256 gig drive is about $10 less at about $25 and $27. A 1tb NVME drive is $60. For a little over half the price you can get 4x the storage and have space for days.
Don't limit yourself to just one hard drive. Buy a cheap 128GB ssd to just stick windows on, and another drive to install your games on. You can split that third drive to be used for windows games, and the other half for Linux games. Then set up boot order to access the Linux drive first, and when you do want to boot up windows you can hit the hotkey at startup to select a different drive to boot first that one time. That way you know windows should never jack with your Linux system at all, and you don't have to worry about anything getting messed up if you have to format one drive or the other.
This is the answer. I've had a 256gb SSD with nothing but Windows on it since 2018. Every time Windows starts to get a little feisty (far too often.. sigh..) I just nuke the drive from orbit and spend an hour reinstalling windows rather than spending a weekend or two shuffling things around to get back to where they need to be.
Only thing that's mildly annoying is most things expect everything to be on the C drive by default and it can be a little annoying navigating programs that don't "remember" the last folder they looked in. But telling the boys that you have to reinstall Windows and then being back on for games the same day, definitely worth it.
That depends what games you plan to boot up. Are they the 100+GB Legendary Edition types with all the DLCs, or are they <15GB indies? If you think it could be the former now or in the future, I wouldn't get less than 512GB (also, keep in mind that games are only getting bigger). You'll run out of storage on the 256 faster than you think, either way, and if you're trying to save money, there's usually deep discounts around Christmas.
I always recommend Crucial drives, as they have been solid choices for me (I have an older MX100 that's still going strong 10 years later). What kind of interface do you have? SATA? NVME?
It's not an apology if you keep trucking right the fuck on along. You apologize, in part, by fixing the problem. Absent that, it's just empty words. Meaningless.
You can't fix a problem that you're being forced to create by your owners.
Sony owns¹ them. Sony says "force PSN log in" and Arrowhead either does what they're told or gets replaced.
it has been pointed out that Sony doesn't literally own them. They're the publisher and choose if the game ever sees the light of day but since that's legally distinct from ownership: Sony doesn't own Arrowhead, they just have their balls in a vice grip and a gun to the CEO's head. Totally different.
Yes, please, because the rootkit implication that every single one of my fellow Helldivers is cheating wasn't enough for Sony (hell, that was only their foreplay)... Now, we get the next step in the data mining cash grab.
I don't, but I do at least expect that a massive corporation will at least try to make money by not doing something this fucking foolish, I swear they fucking hate money and reputation.
It's not just a data mining cash grab. It's a bigger cash grab than that. If they had required the account link from the beginning they would not have sold the game in countries where you can't get a PlayStation account.
They clearly waited until the hype from the game settled in before they made this requirement so that they could make all of the money from the countries they don't service.
That way they could squeeze a little extra out of the player base by mining their data long enough later that players can't get a refund. Doesn't matter to them that they're forcing players in half the geological world to quit.
Truly despicable. They should be forced to issue refunds to players they are effectively kicking from the game, but something tells me nothing is going to happen.
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