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!
These are the kinds of problems that Valve can actually participate in improving. Having a huge company like Valve with Linux hardware is such a big deal. It creates an incentive for them to fix these things and improve Linux as a whole.
My understanding is the Deck getting HDR is the first functional implementation of HDR on Linux. Proton is another huge example. Phenomenal for the wider Linux community.