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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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[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 18 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah maybe, and it's only under 1gb to download, this show how bad and bloated w11 is

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I only use Windows every now and then in a VM to flash Android devices, because I can't figure out how to use the CLI version of Odin on Linux. 😫 Even then, I use Tiny10 and debloat it with The Ultimate Windows Utility.

[–] elmicha@feddit.org 4 points 5 hours ago

When I still had a Samsung phone I used Heimdall, but apparently it was not touched for 5 years, so I'm not sure if it still works for newer phones.