Please not brighter...
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2026
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Seriously, I already have to put my monitors on nearly the lowest brightness as it is. So tired of extreme bright lighting. Especially offices.
Could be useful if you want to watch TV outside in the sun 😂
But marketers must have number go up! Moar Candles!
Seriously, more efficiency is always good, but does anyone actually test monitors for low brightness performance, how good is the color at 100 nits, 50 nits, 10 nits, how low can they go? It's like reviewers have totally forgotten that dark rooms exist.
I mean, bright sunlight is the worst case for contemporary displays, so you usually don't have that. And you don't want to stare in a lamp for most of the time.
I usually have to help with xrandr --brightness and --gamma, because the darn thing is still too bright on it's lowest setting. What's important for me is therefore contrast, not brightness.