I can’t control my off-brand external monitor brightness connected from my laptop on w11, but I can just fine on Linux out of the box no fucking around needed
*White magic. It’s open, not secretive.
I though white magic was healing and black was harming?
Then what is a driver?
Controlling the brightness of my (non-laptop) monitors from within windows was never a thing for me in all my decades using windows. I instantly gained this power on both my monitors as soon as I jumped ship. Windows truly is utter dogshit.
What really? I guess I’m spoiled by Linux
We really take it for granted most times
Holy shit I didn’t even notice this, but you are 100% right. I used to have to fight with the built-in settings on monitors constantly and I haven’t pressed a button on any of my monitors except “power” since I switched to Linux…
Does windows let you control external monitor brightness at all? I don’t think ive ever seen the option for external displays.
Windows doesn’t let you do this natively. But you can do this via PowerToys (third-party add-on): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/power-display
It’s not third-party – MS themselves published it. I like it and use it often for work!
https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
DevToys is third-party, but also very good.
Good point! I should have said non-native, not third-party. I also use PowerToys on my Windows machines. I find the tools it contains are very helpful on a daily basis.
It show a grayed out slider on mine
Last week windows update stopped my laotop from recognizing external monitors altogether. Had to add nvidia tools and mess with system topology etc.
Meanwhile on Linux it was still fine, and also default on GNOME quick settings had a toggle for keyboard backlight on / off That’s a nice touch when somebody thinks of those little things.
This is a tangent, but I miss the days of things just working?
Why does my GPU need an entire software suite to function? Why do my keyboard and mouse? My monitor? Why does every piece of hardware need a buggy terrible gui with “features” nobody ever cared about until it was advertised to them? Up until the last 5 years I’ve never had a monitor not just work out of the box (outside of crt setups with adapters plugged into adapters)
This week I nad to install Wi*dows on my old laptop so I could give it to my dad.
It turns out that for some reason microslop does not include the NVMe drivers for this platform in the installer. Never had this issue when installing Linux on it. Image my confusion when I found out this was the issue.
This week I nad to install Wi*dows on my old laptop so I could give it to my dad.
lol. That brings back memories. I did that once, and then I kept getting asked Windows tech support questions.
So now I don’t bother. Linux Mint is more than good enough for my random family use.
Ya, I put mint on a rig for my aunt, didn’t even tell her it wasn’t windows. Granted all she ever uses is the browser, but she seems happy with it. 10/10
Go to windows updates, click the little “optional updates” text.
Usually weird display stuff is in there.
Only to be told “your system is up to date” 🤣
Isn’t this a driver issue?
Don’t think so, this monitor doesn’t even have a driver to download
Gpu driver.
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