It gets better. One of my ASUS monitors has a defect (it kicked in after several years of use) where it no longer provides EDID information. I believe that on windows and macOS this would effectively be the end-of-life for the monitor, which is a shame since in every other way it is still 100% functional. On Linux, I was able to tell the kernel to use a file for the EDID information, and created the file using the other (identical) monitor.

Very much a corner case, but also another perfectly good monitor kept out of a landfill.