I think you should understand calibration and what you’ll need to do before you spend $1000 on a monitor. What software you’ll need to run will depend on the monitor’s built in calibration routines.
If you don’t care to understand, you can spend a lot less than $1000.
yep, I’ve heard a lot of praise about Radeon and opensource driver … if I could and have a choice I would prefer Radeon but unfortunately laptops with Radeon graphics are like endangered species …
yes, I am asking from the beginning how hardware calibration works, if I can use my mac computer to calibrate the display and then use it with different computer …
I was reading a lot about calibration … as far as I understand the only output from calibration is an .icc profile stored in the file that you can use with specific applications (image processing apps for example) or globally if your operating system supports that … there is debate if calibrating a display from Linux using virtualbox and usb passthrough will work or if just calibrating a display using windows on same computer (dualboot or just a disk switcheroo) and then using Linux will work …
There is one certainty - hardware vendors don’t support Linux so obviously the calibrating software is available typically only for Windows and Mac …
my point is - I am not going to start using other operating system just because of this … I insist on using Linux and opensource … The worst scenario is that I will just not buy display with hw calibration support … I’ve read elsewhere that perhaps some other vendors support “unofficially” Linux … I have no problem to just use windows in vbox if it will work, or just use windows on my hardware (I always remove untouched original disk with oem windows from laptop and insert my own m2.ssd before installing Linux) and calibrate the display … but the point is that I will always require to use my Linux for a regular desktop from where I will be processing my photographs …
Of course, rpmfusion works just fine. Until it doesn’t because it got out of sync with the kernel. With open source drivers (like for Intel or Radeon) no such extra steps are needed.
Hello … I am a huge step closer to new computer … I am already planning a computer … I decided to go with AMD cpu and AMD GPU (RX 7600 XT) and I would love to additionally verify one thing …
I am a bit confused of GPU participation in processing with certain programs that support that … Based on what I have googled out they are supposed to use the GPU via some `opencl’ library … I’ve been googling a lot and found a lot of rants about that opencl for amd doesn’t work properly and others saying that it works instead … So my question is simple (they are actually two questions):
will amd gpu with rx 7600 xt work fully in Linux with that praised AMD driver ?
will opencl work for me with above card (+ its native linux driver) ?
Programs that I use (and that I wanna boost) are
RT - it doesn’t use GPU
DT - it does via opencl ???
GIMP - there’s hidden feature to activate GPU … it sounds very scary … LOL
Kdenlive - no idea how it works there and if it works … a lot of confusing results googled out, no idea if it is using opencl or something else
A few remarks about me trying to use Nvidia on Linux:
Proprietary drivers are more stable and/or easy to install and setup ;
Nvidia work well with X11 (almost out of the box) but not well with Wayland (in my experience) ;
Nividia does not like when the computer go to suspend/hibernation, I have to reboot the computer after this to have OpenCL to work (a common problem on Linux with Nvidia, it seems) ;
I do not color calibrate at the moment but from my research on Linux it is 1000× easier to do hardware calibration because otherwise you will have to ensure all the software you use are compatible (X11/Wayland, Nvidia driver, etc) and nothing is easy to setup here. Hardware calibration avoid using the OS for calibration (and also is more precise than software calibration).