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
Either Linux’s built-in display drivers are black magic or microslop is incompetent
Why not both :) ?
I just realized that since switching to cachyos 4 months ago I have never had to install any driver or driver updates (outside of just running the system update).
Even during initial setup I don’t think I installed anything driver related.
It’s really a step up from Microslop. Last time I installed my W10 I had to prepare all the necessary drivers and collect them on each manufacturers websites.
It is so much more streamlined on Linux.
That’s the result of 30 years of hard work and suffering! Windows was always supported by hardware vendors, meaning THEY supplied drivers which you’d then have to install on Windows.
Linux never was, so Linux devs had to write their own drivers for every hardware and put them in the kernel for you.True
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
Does windows let you control external monitor brightness at all? I don’t think ive ever seen the option for external displays.
It show a grayed out slider on mine
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)
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.
Go to windows updates, click the little “optional updates” text.
Usually weird display stuff is in there.
Isn’t this a driver issue?
Don’t think so, this monitor doesn’t even have a driver to download
Gpu driver.
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.
I have a BenQ EW270Q. I’m experiencing a really odd issue. I’m able to control the display’s brightness from GNOME’s quick settings, but only with HDR enabled. When I disable HDR, the controls disappear. Any idea why this could be?
