alt Hacker NewsOkay, 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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HDMI is a king on consumer TVs. Linux (in form of SteamOS) is becoming a major console gaming platform thanks to Valve.
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.
Because your motherboard only supports HDMI. The last three I used had HDMI, and sometimes VGA.
I have been using HDMI to game on TV for most or all of my adult life. Mostly console gaming. A few years back I built a dedicated gaming rig, but I still use it with a controller from my couch connected to a TV.
So this is a win for couch gamers and open source in general.
If you’re using a TV. They rarely have DP ports.