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    [–] skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Mixed VRR is not an obscure feature for one. Most of my friends with gaming rigs have a primary monitor with VRR and use their old fixed rate monitors as secondary displays. Does it make a massive difference to run fixed refresh rate? No but it is noticeable and nice to have. Windows can do it and I paid for the hardware. Without parity on this kind of stuff, Linux is a hard sell to the people who do care about it.

    Does it matter to Joe Schmoe? Probably not, but Joe Schmoe probably doesn't care about Linux to begin with. You have to go for the tech enthusiasts first before you can get it to the masses.

    [–] ExLisper@linux.community 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    1.6% of gamers use Linux. 25% of developers use Linux. Typical tech enthusiast is not gamer. Just because in your bubble people use VRR doesn't mean it's important to majority of users. Most Linux users don't care.

    [–] skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    1.6% of gamers is still millions of people. Entire industries exist on the back of much smaller customer bases than that. Might as well say we should stop caring about desktop linux completely since the server market dwarfs it.

    [–] ExLisper@linux.community 1 points 10 months ago

    I'm not saying we should just ignore it. I'm saying that it took the time it took (a decade) for Wayland to become a thing because most people don't need it. Some people do and it's not getting traction but most people can still safely ignore it.