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kammerer And the rest of my questions?

Hi. My eyestraining problems are so extreme I can't use any screen which is no eInk without dizzynes in a few minutes. I have a 13" eInk HDMI screen which worked perfectly on a Windows7 machine, but after reinstalling another windows version (7 or 10) it also eyestreied me. Ubuntu and Rasbpian does the same. My graphics card is a Nvidia GeForce GT710

Installed Ubuntu 14 but when entering into desktop the computer freezes, so today I am going to install Windows XP SP1 and Linux mint 14 to see what happens. I am going to try Windows XP with driver and without. I will tell you if it works for me

KM I used the NVidia driver

kammerer This is not vendor related. I could reproduce it with different GPUs. So I think it is OS related and does not affect hardware dithering.

I plugged in my old Sapphire Radeon HD5450 (AMD GPU) to see if anything has changed in recent Linux distros, but it was pure hell just looking at the desktop screen for 5 minutes. Still the worst card I have ever used, totally unusable. I saw that when you type "xrandr --props" it shows various options, including "dither". Which ironically was turned off by default. I tried various settings, but they didn't help.
Even got a slight headache now.

Hi same behaviour here with Debian 10 + KDE + Vega 64.
Just for curiosity, which driver are you using? amdgpu pro?

I'm looking to jump into a linux hosted VM soon so I'll be posting in this thread. I don't have a ton of experience, but in the past I have noticed that Linux Mint with xfce caused me pain, while cinnamon did not. Lubunut with LXDE did not cause me problems, But this was all several years ago. I'll report back with my more recent findings

This interesting tool https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html allows one to load up a ton of ISOs on a stick or drive, and boot directly into the ISO instead of having to install it first.

The past couple days I've been playing around with some distros to see how they are.

OpenBSD is on hold due to kernel panic which will get addressed, but in the meantime I am taking a look at Linux for fun since I have USB flash drives as well as an external USB drive. This means I don't need to set up a dual-boot if I don't want to, I can just install directly to the external drive from a flash drive and select it from the bios to boot from.

Easy enough to burn isos to a usb flash drive. On windows you can use the Rufus tool (I use this the most) but a lot of people use Balena Etcher instead, which I have also tried.

Played around with some KDE and Gnome distros as well as the underlying families they're from. There has been improvement in the past 5 years. This is observable for example, KDE Neon is a strange one because it uses rolling-release for the KDE portion but the base is Ubuntu LTS, so 18.04 in this case along with the kernel. Compared to Manjaro KDE which uses the Arch Linux base (kernel 5.6+) etc one can observe the Ubuntu base isn't all that ideal compared to the Arch base. I noticed this as well with PopOs! (this is a nice Gnome distro) which uses Ubuntu as a base.

So my plan is, I want to see how OpenBSD is on my computer (I can't start X, just the command line right now) and for Linux I am thinking Ubuntu and it's derivatives are probably to be avoided and it might be something to do with compilation flags, so one thing I might test is to install Gentoo and/or Arch and evaluate from there. Gentoo is also the base for things like Chromebooks.

KDE, Gnome and WMs are also factors in play here because if they are compositing managers, they will affect how things appear so it is not enough to only select a base OS.

who has a usable Linux setup? I'm trying PopOS/AMD580 & it's not great.