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I finally had enough of Win11 and downgraded to 10. What a difference! I can actually reliably change my audio outputs again with 2 clicks! I can get to old school settings panels with less hassle and digging too.
I know this comes off as a kidnapping victim saying “My old kidnapper let me use the shower”, but until all my games run well in Linux, I’m stuck here.
I would do the same, but then I'd have to go back to Win10's laughably awful implementation of HDR support, and I can't have that. So instead I downloaded SoundSwitch to fix your first issue, and installed StartAllBack to fix the second (you could also simply pin the Control Panel to the Start menu).
that sounds really fiddly and tedious, why moy just use Linux?
I dual boot Arch but mostly use Win11, cause KDE's implementation of HDR is even more fiddly and tedious. In 11, all I gotta do is enable the setting to use HDR, and it just works. I don't even have to calibrate my display cause my monitor has a setting to automatically process HDR content for me. All I gotta do is leave in-game calibrations at their default setting, and the monitor does the rest. Literally couldn't be easier. Win11 can even automatically convert SDR games to HDR (called "AutoHDR"), and my nVidia GPU can do the same for videos (streaming or local, unfortunately I can't find the setting in the Linux Nvidia drivers). And it just works effortlessly.
So yeah, that's why I still use Windows11. No other OS makes HDR so easy. (But TBF the monitor helps a lot too; LG C1, BTW.)