As mentioned previously my roommate gave me her old laptop, which I installed MX Linux on.

(As an aside, I think they should change the name to MXLinux, because a separate MX from Linux means search results often just show generic Linux results, especially since MX isn't as popular).

Anyways, one of the things that bothered me was the screen looked washed out. I didn't see any obvious settings in xrandr, so I googled for some answer.

Fortunately it was really easy. There's a utility called xgamma that allows you to set the gamma for each channel (RGB). xgamma man pages

basically you call it like: :::bash xgamma -rgamma 0.700 -ggamma 0.600 -bgamma 0.600

These settings were what worked for me, and were pretty good off the bat, but you may need trial and error. It is pretty quick to apply, so should be easy to test if the first time doesn't look good.: