I’m gonna get downvoted to oblivion for this…

I just got my new OLED and weirdly enough, upon booting it I saw something that I didn’t even think of till now. With the new OLED, the sub-pixel arrangement is slightly different than the LCD, and it’s causing white edge (specially on text) to have this green/magenta fringing. It’s extremely faint, and it’s not particular to the Steam Deck since I know of other OLED panels that have the same fringing. However I have heard zero mention of this and I have to say that although this matters close to nothing while playing videogames, it’s something I do see with subtitles.

With this out of the way, the screen looks amazing and I’m more than ready to sell and replace my LCD deck now. I hope the technology gets there where this isn’t an issue anymore!

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Steam Deck LCD

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Steam Deck OLED

  • mlopes@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Just a small detail, in Linux, the OS doesn’t handle this kind of thing, for SteamOS this is probably handled by Wayland or KDE, can’t say for sure as I’m not actually very up to date on how much of the desktop management stuff was offloaded to Wayland.

    • LippyBumblebutt@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Wayland/X is very much part of the OS (unless you run headless). It is not part of the Linux Kernel for sure, but OP didn’t say that.

      Nobody called the OS “Linux” or GNU/Linux. Nobody (who knows what they’re doing) calls their OS GNU/Linux. Usually they call it Ubuntu, Fedora or Arch Linux (+ version + edition if it matters) or SteamOS. Only people who try to look intelligent call their OS GNU/Linux. (or maybe if you did LFS…)

    • Zamundaaa@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      When people say “OS” they do not mean “kernel”. Wayland, compositors and partially even toolkits are very much part of the OS.

      • mlopes@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        They’re not. I have multiple Linux installations that have no Wayland installed and some don’t even have X installed. The OS which is usually called GNU/Linux is the Linux kernel plus a set of GNU tools that allows you to use the system. No Linux user who knows what they’re doing would call Wayland part of the OS.

        • Zanpa@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          No Linux user who knows what they’re doing would call Wayland part of the OS.

          Yes they would, if the context is about “is it hardware or software that handles subpixel rendering”. Nobody is talking about the details of whatever is going on in the software.

        • Bagel42@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          If it’s SteamOS and im not talking to people very well versed, it’s part of the OS.