This Linux tool was the last thing I needed to wave goodbye to Windows

My journey with Linux has been ongoing: from dipping a tentative toe into Bazzite last year to completely ditching Windows in favour of openSUSE Tumbleweed a few weeks ago. It's the kernel at the heart of a sea of distros, though sometimes you can abolish your graphics driver by typing "sudo zypper dup" while one or more repos are out of sync.

The one thing that eluded me was HDR. I tried to get HDR to play ball with my LG OLED TV. Notionally, Gamescope—the micro-compositor that lets things run in HDR on the Steam Deck—should help, but however many Gamescope arguments I fed into my Steam-game launch options, it either did nothing or left the game a washed-out mess.

Last weekend I started to muck about with ScopeBuddy and its civilised graphical frontend, ScopeBuddy-GUI—originally made for Bazzite—which simplifies those long Gamescope argument strings into a single command. Installing is as easy as using a curl command and marking ScopeBuddy executable, while ScopeBuddy-GUI is a couldn't-be-simpler flatpak.

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