Okay, so ELI 5 why I would now use HDMI instead of DP? All my monitors support DP, my GPU has more ports for DP ... I am genuinely interested as I've never even considered using HDMI for my Desktop.
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#62Okay, so ELI 5 why I would now use HDMI instead of DP? All my monitors support DP, my GPU has more ports for DP ... I am genuinely interested as I've never even considered using HDMI for my Desktop.
What’s DP? My desktop and laptop both have HDMI.
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#63Okay, so ELI 5 why I would now use HDMI instead of DP? All my monitors support DP, my GPU has more ports for DP ... I am genuinely interested as I've never even considered using HDMI for my Desktop.
> Okay, so ELI 5 why I would now use HDMI instead of DP?
For A/V stuff: CEC and (e)ARC.
* CEC: control one device, and downstream items receive instructions so you're (ideally) not fiddling with multiple remotes.
* ARC: the TV/display can decode audio/video and pass the audio to a sound bar or other audio system.
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#64Okay, so ELI 5 why I would now use HDMI instead of DP? All my monitors support DP, my GPU has more ports for DP ... I am genuinely interested as I've never even considered using HDMI for my Desktop.
What’s DP? My desktop and laptop both have HDMI.
Display port. Most monitors support it.
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That doesn't help when the monitors don't have DP2.1 support.
I havent seen a monitor (besides tvs) that has HDMI2.1 but not DP2.1
Plenty of high refresh gaming monitors out there that use HDMI 2.1 or DP1.4 with DSC.
DSC is just the "card up the sleeve" for DP1.4, you can push it all the way to 4K 240hz HDR. So there is little incentive to switch to DP2.1 for OEMs.
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#67What about this is more interesting than the LWN coverage?
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HDMI 2.1 carries more bandwidth than DisplayPort 1.4. Plenty of GPU/monitors have that port arrangement, as recent as Nvidia's RTX 40 Series.
Yeah but this is for amdgpu and they had DP2.1 support for a while now.
AMD RX 6700 XT from 2021 only has DP1.4 (but HDMI 2.1).
Dell U5226KW from 2026 only has DP1.4 (but HDMI 2.1).
I don't think I have seen anything above DP1.4 in the wild for now.
Re: Linux 7.2
#69Okay, so ELI 5 why I would now use HDMI instead of DP? All my monitors support DP, my GPU has more ports for DP ... I am genuinely interested as I've never even considered using HDMI for my Desktop.
> Okay, so ELI 5 why I would now use HDMI instead of DP?
I use DP too when I can. For example my main desktop is using DP.
But many devices have HDMI, not DP. For example I've got seven Raspberry Pi here: they all have HDMI and none has DP. There's, what, 100 million Raspberry Pi in the world by now? Don't know the number but: devices that do not support DP aren't rare.
And Linux runs on much more than desktop PCs.
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I don't think there is much too it, it's a consulting firm. Would you hire a consulting firm with an empty tech blog portifolio? It's ticking a box, it's stating it's a consulting firm in tech, that it's target audience are companies with Linux machines etc...
ty. so very narrow audicence it seems. Per @sph, as Linus provide no changelog, seems like the firm is putting it together for others
Wouldn't have HN any other way. For better or worse, it's the best sorta proving grounds for writers. Pass the trial of fire and chances are you did something right.
I'd count my losses and move on happy that it hit front page.