LE10 and older Generic and all Generic-legacy images use GL + x11.
LE11/12/13 use GLES + GBM.
It is currently possible to build GL + GBM image (Generic-gl). LE14 would probably use that.
Thanks for the replies, I am after true 4k or as close to true 4k as I can get in Linux, everything I have read says for that you need to use GLES, I am running x86. So if I am reading this right the current version uses GLES?
Does LE use the gl or the gles render system?
Same as Intel then. Nothing more, nothing less.
So would I gain anything running LibreELEC over running Kodi flatpak on Ubuntu?
Assuming you have a recent Intel GPU with HDR support, then in current Kodi full = HDR, HDR10, and HLG. Dynamic HDR10+ is not supported but almost all media using HDR10+ has HDR10 fall-back so you still see somehing nice. DV is a mixed bag: some media has HDR10 fall-back so you'll see something fine, but other content (mostly from online streaming services) does not and then you'll see weird colours. There's some background progress on solving that with tonemapping, but these things take time. There is also limited HDR > SDR conversion through tonemapping. If you want 'full' HDR support you need to use an Android device that has full support (nVidia shield is the default recommendation).
The installer for the Generic image needs to create two partitions: one for boot files, one to be used as persistent storage, so it does not support installation into an existing partition. It only installs to the entire disk so if you have Windows and Ubuntu on the same physical disk it will nuke both. It's possible to manually remove the Windows partition and create the required two partitions in its place, copy files over to the boot partition, then create a grub2 (the Ubuntu bootloader) entry for LibreELEC, but you'll need to go figure that out on your own (there are some threads here if you Google for them). It's also possible to just boot LE from a USB key when you need it, or to install the Kodi snap in Ubuntu and use that instead.
I have a very new AMD CPU with Radeon Graphics, so will i get full HDR or just tone mapping?
Does LibreELEC support full HDR, and I currently have a system dual booting Windows and Ubuntu, can I install LibreELEC over the Windows and NOT mess up the Ubuntu install?
