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  • It’s totally fine, no worries!

    And again as I’ve said before I don’t wanna distro hop anymore, this isn’t my first distro (but am not a linux expert or anything, very much a normal/casual user here), jumped around a lot for a good while now before eyeing up Fedora to be my main, have a good idea of what I want and so am focused on the long term and reliability of the thing.

    And well, you kinda said it yourself haha, it’s up to date but stable, and it’s basically taken the place that Ubuntu originally held as a jack of all trades of sorts, that’s literally it, that’s my reason for being interested in it, Ubuntu has been extremely hit or miss for me in regards to stability and updates (literally the system at one point nearly bricked itself when trying to upgrade and am now stuck on a specific Ubuntu version forever because of it, the updating thing seems completely borked for me, can’t upgrade it without wiping the whole thing and this isn’t the first or last time anything Ubuntu based has done this to me before, updating it is very dreadful for me because it’s a complete gamble), and as far as I know Fedora seems to be a lot more stable and polished on that front, haven’t heard anything majorly bad about it.

    That’s good to hear, well alright then, what legal stuff would be concerning if I may ask? Heard at one point they were gonna get rid of hardware acceleration or something because of legalities or whatever?? But then changed their minds? Idk, stuff like that worries me a bit haha.


  • Really appreciate the in-depth explanation, thx! I’ll take a look at the links then.

    So with all of this considered, do you personally think it’s safe to go with Fedora long term? Even in a worst case scenario? And if not then what else should be considered for me?

    I also am curious about Fedora’s whole “leading edge” thing, do they push for new technologies even when it’ll cause issues or are they careful with it?




  • No worries! It’s still very much appreciated, thx for the in-depth explanation!

    ‘Black magic optical fuckery’ I like those funny words haha.

    Though one thing that I still don’t understand is why the Q stuff uses blue light over white light, I heard it’s supposedly better for colours or something? How so? Isn’t blue light in OLEDs especially the most likely to degrade first or something?

    I also heard about different versions and tunings of the LCD panels that try to fix their inherent disadvantages, i.e. IPS black, Fast VA, etc. how are those made?


  • They still seem to do if you push them which is what I’m worried about, using one as a PC monitor probably would qualify as you “pushing it” as you’ll inevitably have long periods of static stuff up frequently for hours, my use case definitely leans towards that rather then causal on and off usage.

    it’s definitely gotten better overtime it looks like but it’s still very much a thing which I’m anxious about, not helped by how expensive they are, no idea how it’ll hold up for me.

    Though I heard different organic compounds last longer and behave differently then others, do you know what 4th gen QD-OLEDs use for their pixels?


  • I did, only got told some general pieces of advice, followed them, and narrowed it down to the motherboard and or the CPU. I fumbled severely on its initial power on it looked like, bricked it just like that…

    Thx for that! Didn’t know those even existed, I’ll definitely look into it later. Might not be useful for some things though as I need the length of the screwdriver to reach certain areas that I otherwise cannot.

    For me it’s less of a learning experience and more of a “the consequences of your incompetence” situation, guess I’m in the minority here but I just can never avoid making mistakes and I always gotta deal with the consequences of it. It is what it is I guess, it really sucks though.


  • I see. Yeah it’s super confusing, but thanks for the explanations, really appreciate it. I wish microLED would be ready, cause right now there sadly just isn’t anything that can fully rival OLED on the picture quality, there’s a few super rare awesome LEDs out there but none on the level of OLED right now, and again very rare to find.

    I definitely have major concerns about OLEDs as I recently got one and am anxious about that burn in, it’s a monitor and I’ll be using it as any other monitor per my needs so I’m a bit worried haha, I’ll try to take care of it obviously but I still wanna use it as a monitor.

    Should I make another post somewhere asking about OLEDs longevity or?