HDR Gaming on Linux & Wayland: The 2026 Color Management Breakthrough
High Dynamic Range was once exclusive to Windows. How gamescope and modern Wayland compositors unlocked pristine 1,000-nit HDR on open-source desktops.
Solving Linux Color Pipelines
For years, HDR support on Linux was fragmented. Thanks to Valve's work on the Steam Deck OLED and upstream contributions to Wayland protocols, native 10-bit HDR gaming with per-game tone mapping is now fully functional across modern Linux distributions.
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