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

  • los0220@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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.

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
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      5 months ago

      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.

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    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.

  • The Ramen Dutchman@ttrpg.network
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    5 months ago

    My Dell monitor’s brightness can adjusted on Bazzite Linux out of the box but I’ve never been able to get this working on Linux Mint, Arch, Debian nor NixOS :/

  • BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Can you enable DDC/CI in the monitors on-screen menus?

    If so, and if there aren’t drivers available (I can’t find drivers when searching MF2208-A), then if you can enable DDC/CI you can use 3rd party tools to control the brightness. Display Dimmer and ClickMonitorDDC are 2 I found on a quick google.

    If Linux can control the monitor, then it sounds like a lack of drivers for Windows but the display should still support DDC/CI; 3rd party tools do sometimes still work in this scenario for DDC/CI in Windows.