Almost everything you need tone mapping for is 4k. Even a beast of a video card isn’t going to give you that many transcoded 4k streams. The same card that can give you 10 or 15 1080 transcodes might give you 2 or 3 4k streams
How many 4k transcoded/tone mapped streams can you really get out of just an intel chip?
For me, it’s just not worth bothering with a different OS
4k files are large. If I can keep a 30gb copy of a 4k movie I can afford to keep a 1gb copy of it for people to watch on less capable hardware
