My laptop broke yesterday afternoon. Just totally frozen. On reboot it didn't recognise half the hardware (no WiFi or mouse/track pad). Marvellous.
Now managed to make a fresh install of Linux Mint 22.1. All seems good except a screen brightness issue I can't seem to solve (it's stuck way too bright for my liking and can find no way to reduce it. No brightness slider anywhere). Might be a driver issue? Don't know how to fix that.
Linux graphics drivers have been the most intractable problems for me. Good luck.
@crecente I use an external monitor via hdmi as well and the brightness of that is obviously independent so its not an intractable problem. But obviously something graphical isn't communicating right somewhere. I like my screens quite dim so a bright light is not constantly shining in my eyes.