[wzdd]

Linux* actually does have a tendency towards more hardline stances, simply because it's not answerable to market forces in quite the same way. For example, say 0.5% of monitors out there have dodgy edid values like this. For a commercial OS, that's a lot of unhappy people, many of whom have social media accounts, so "When displaying a new resolution, always start at max(60Hz, lowest available refresh rate) so if something's wrong people can at least see what's going on" might be a good rule of thumb for a commercial OS.

For Linux, however, the equivalent might be "report the bug so an exception can be made for this specific monitor". In other words, it's less important that everybody be immediately happy, as long as bugs can be reported and eventually fixed.

* Shorthand for any OSS kernel and its associated ecosystem

[hedora]

I’ve seen many more monitor compatibility issues under MacOS than Linux, and have plenty of older hardware that works with reverse engineered Linux drivers, but no longer works with Windows.

I think the common case is that vendors test with the current version of Windows, MacOS and/or Linux (in decreasing priority order), then hope that it the hardware is EOL’ed before the drivers bit rot.