I pay for YouTube premium. Although I’d prefer to find an EU alternative, I really have no problem paying for a service that I consider worth the price.

A red flag for me, is if I’m paying for a service and they still show me adverts.

That’s fair.

Sure there’s that. I’m just trying to help you understand the viewpoint of some of the people that are heavy users of YouTube, and why there are currently no good alternatives, as you said “I really struggle trying to understand”.

I’m sure, like me, there are other people with their own alternative valid reasons for using YouTube for enormous amounts of time.

Just because some of the content on a platform is bad or not to our tastes, doesn’t mean it all is, and it certainly doesn’t mean that the users are wrong for using that platform in a way that suits them.

I do disagree with the publishing of content that is hateful or deliberately trying to misinform people, and I think YouTube has a lot of that, I’d obviously prefer it didn’t.

I use YouTube extensively (I mean, 2-5 hours a day) and 7 days a week for years now; I use it for language learning, there is really nothing better than normal people chatting (to the camera or between themselves) about regular daily stuff that I’m also interested in, to improve comprehension, I’d love to find any source as rich as YouTube. Peertube is hopeless, I tried and failed there due to a complete lack of content (though I do check in occasionally, I’d love if some of my subscribed YouTubers would start publishing on that platform… Though I don’t know if there are any monetary incentives for them to do that?).

Ok, I’ll look into what quality my HDMI cable is, thanks :)

I see, I am using gnome.

The refresh rate is 59.12

I don’t know what quality the cable is, however considering the image quality is fine at that resolution with the default drivers makes me suspect that the cable is not the problem.

I don’t really understand the solution there, how do I apply that flag? How do I even know if I’m using plasma?

Eventually the entire screen is flickering and flashing, but I can’t upload a video.

Weirdly xrandr doesn’t list 3840x1080 as an option, even though the display settings do (and it works fine at that resolution with the default driver).

It does seem pretty stable at 2560x1080, but it looks horrendous, stretched horizontally.

Just to confirm too, I’ve reinstalled the drivers and had it on the desktop for a while, the issue is very clear (I’ve uploaded some photos) but the GPU temperature is at 50°C.

Unfortunately, I cannot change the refresh rate, it’s the same as with the default driver: 59.12.

It does go away on lower resolutions, which is interesting but none of the lower resolutions are a good ratio for my monitor.

Here are some photos:

Thanks for the reply, but no, it’s at all times on the ultrawide monitor, even just sitting on the desktop