> You absolutely will not notice the difference

If you make absolutes like that, then everything I could respond with is automatically “wrong”, so that’s not a great conversation opener.

My smartphone is not a gaming monitor either, but 120Hz is hugely noticeable. My windows desktop is using a 144Hz monitor. I had a 120Hz MacBook Pro for awhile. I’m familiar with how I experience high refresh rate on different types of devices.

You may not care, and that’s fine, but what’s the point of asking why I care and then telling me in no certain terms that I won’t? And how do you know if I would be gaming on this or not? Valve has put immense effort into making Linux viable for gaming. If you’re instead trying to say the monitor’s response times suck, how do you know that already?

If you haven't used high refresh monitor. You probably won't notice the difference. But after you do it once, there is no way to go back. Just like high resolution monitors.

Mouse and scrolling feels so much more smoother on a high refresh rate monitor. To the point if windows messed up the refresh rate, you can instantly feel it.

I have screens running at both 60Hz and 120Hz right now.

For mousing, I can see it but I don't care. I even used my main screen at 30Hz for a while, and mousing was fine.

For scrolling, I scroll at the click rate of my mouse wheel, which is usually 6-20. With no smoothing applied, because I don't want it, scrolling looks the same on both screens.

It's really only games where I care.

So don't be so sure about how universal your own preferences are.

> I can see it but I don't care.

Then you are still able to know the difference since then.

You just don't care about it in that use case. (Neither do I. My second monitor is 60fps, and watching video or developing web page on it are totally fine to me)

The argument `people won't be able to tell the difference about 60fps and 120fps` only makes sense if you don't have experience about using a high refresh rate monitor.

But your argument was "after you do it once, there is no way to go back".

Unless "go back" was "not know there is a difference, unrelated to whether you care"?

Because in the comparison to high resolution, I would never want to go back to 1080p. But refresh rate is whatever to me outside of games.

I personally use smooth scrolling because I find no smoothing more confusing to use. So yeah, scrolling will look different for some people.

Yeah, I jump between 60hz, 120hz, and 240hz screens several times a day and while the difference in smoothness is very visible, if I'm not gaming I forget about it very quickly. Personally for work machines I find high density (preferably integer scaling friendly) preferable over extra frames.

I agree, I would say higher resolution screens always pay dividends in coding (crispness, and real estate). I've been downgrading a 144hz monitor to 100hz in gaming and haven't noticed too much difference. I think I'd have to jump to 244hz for my own perceptibility to notice the difference in games.

Seriously, if I could get a 21+ inch e-ink monitor even with a refresh rate on the order of 2 Hz, I'd still take it over a 144Hz @ 1080p. The added density and reduction of eye strain make it much more useful for textual work.

I absolutely do notice when my laptop screen defaults back to 60hz, instead of 144hz after some interactions.

Trust me, there are people who notice the difference. After having tried a good 120Hz display for work I now go out of my way to not need to work on 60Hz displays. It’s more tactile, responsive and immediate. Smoother. Helps focus.

I absolutely notice if my monitor runs at 60hz for whatever reason instead of 144hz, even while just doing desktop tasks. Have you used a 144hz screen for any significant period of time?

Just go to a place where they sell iphones and compare the 60 Hz to the 120 Hz model. Open the settings menu and just scroll up and down. The difference is so very noticeable. I don't know why people try to claim that it's imperceptible, or that you can't tell the difference between a 1080p and 4K display.

I'm 100% fan of high refresh rate on smartphone, because smartphone UI is aimed for scrolling forever. Difference between 60Hz vs 120Hz is night and day.

So then I replaced a PC monitor from 60Hz LCD to 144Hz 4K LCD, I expected such difference before buy. After setup, I can find difference but don't find much difference like smartphone. I don't scroll so much on bigger screen PC, and maybe I'm too used to Windows' crappy scrolling. Anyway my mouse has classic wheel so non-smooth scroll is fine unlike touchscreen/trackpad case. Mouse cursor isn't smooth but it's just that. Finally I bought second 60Hz 4K LCD after that because it's cheaper, it's fine.