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
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
Monitorian was my goto when dual-booting
Does windows let you control external monitor brightness at all? I don’t think ive ever seen the option for external displays on windows.
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.
What distro has ddc/ci support out of the box? I’ve always had to install a DKMS module to get an external monitor to show up in /sys/class/backlight.
Arch + KDE does that
Yeah that’s what I’m using
CachyOS (so basically that other user’s arch + kde comment, lol)
Always worked out of the box on gnome fedora for me.
Go to windows updates, click the little “optional updates” text.
Usually weird display stuff is in there.
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.
Isn’t this a driver issue?
Don’t think so, this monitor doesn’t even have a driver to download
Gpu driver.
I used Monitorian when I was using Windows years ago, you can find it in the Microslop Store (if it’s still available)
The message you’re seeing is Monitorian, it complained about ddc/ci, I never had to deal with ddc/ci on Linux
I had to install a package to make ddc/ci work on Linux, it might just be a Debian thing tho
Windows power toys added a thing to control the monitor. It lets you do brightness and contrast like monitorian. But it also gives you changing inputs, changing color temperature, and a few other things.
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 :/
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