I was using Redshift on Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop and it kept flickering off and on again. I found out that the Night Light feature in Gnome was enabled and this was conflicting with the Redshift app. I just disabled Night Light and this was fixed. But this is a trap for the unwary. Easy to fix though. Ubuntu does work very well with modern hardware, especially super high res gaming displays. I could set my screen to 84 HZ refresh rate and this works out of the box. it seems to make a big difference in the feel of the overall desktop. Just a pity I cannot use 100 HZ on Linux. But I just wish I could get thumbnails in the file picker in the Gnome desktop, instead of using KDE. That has been an outstanding bug for a long time and it still has not been fixed. This would be very useful for every Linux user, but it seems we will never get this at all. There is a bug report for this dating back to 2004 and it still has not been fixed. This is just like the Arma 3 developers, their product has horrible FPS and hardware usage and they still have not fixed it.
Developers are getting lazier and lazier as time goes on. This does not bode well for the future of software development. Gnome developers are very lazy, they can not be bothered to fix such a simple bug. It would not be hard to fix this either, I guess you could patch it in yourself, but it would be a pain. I mean, having a bug report from 2004 and it is still outstanding? This is Gnome in a nutshell. Here is another example, this is from 2004. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141154. Windows `98 had this feature long as well as Macintosh OSX. But Gnome does not? The file picker in Windows `95 just shows generic icons, but the one in `98 works as you would expect, this is very good. I wish there was a window manager for Ubuntu that was exactly like the Windows Explorer interface from windows 2000. That would be amazing. The Gnome desktop is good, but Windows Explorer is good too. I just hate when it crashes and then restarts itself.