I think games running through proton and wine support it.

The meme is kinda outdated. You can get HDR since KDE Plasma 6

I believe it works by obtaining a real licence from Microsoft servers. Since MS wants to get everybody to move from 7 to 10/11 the only thing required to upgrade a win 7 install to 10 or 11 is an installation ID. And you can reuse the same installation ID infinitely.

Maybe for the OS. Still the BIOS/UEFI requires phisical RAM to boot

That sounds like a problem with the graphics drivers

Early Febuary 2024 if all goes well.

Not great. Instead of open sourcing the proprietary driver they made a seperate open source one. So there are currenty two seperate official kernel drivers:

• A usable proprietary driver.

• And a horrible open source driver.

Also all userspace drivers are all still proprietary.

aura