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

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    14 hours ago

    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.

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      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.