Yes Danny I know that PM doesnt run on Linux, this is why I was asking about the possibility to simply disregard this “hardware calibration” business which I don’t understand how that would work (*);
my main point was, ok then so setting aside PM, how should I use DisplayCAL on Linux with my monitor? Is the procedure I described above correct at least in theory?
Also, you said:
Sw calibration (e.g with displaycal) only manipulates the gpu output.
…alright so what does that mean? I can see a difference between using one icc profile and the other when choosing it under ubuntu prefs/color… and that’s because I am using the GPU… so it does work… apologies if this sentence makes perfect sense to you, to me it doesn’t?..
(*) I suppose I could connect my work laptop (Windows) and try to run PM to calibrate the monitor in ‘hardware’ but then where would this profile go? Will it be stored under one of the main “modes” (see screenshot above of my OSD… perhaps it will be store permanently under color adjustment/color mode/Calibration 1 or 2?) But then how is the sytem (Ubuntu… and darktable) know that this is all “calibrated”? What should I specify under ‘display profile’ in dt… what to do under the Color tab in Ubuntu prefs? these are all things that are very unclear to me.