I like to keep the brightness to minimum always because my laptop is already pretty bright even in the lowest brightness. Every time I turn on my Ubuntu laptop the brightness is little higher than zero. I have to manually turn down the brightness to the lowest myself after it starts up on every single system startup.
Edit: The latptop I'm using Dell Vostro-15-3568. It has Intel Graphics. All the information can be acquired by Googling its name. If there is some specific information you need, the please ask me.
If you're running Ubuntu on a laptop, can you test it yourself by decreasing the brightness to minimum and then restart to check if it's still at minimum or if it's been increased after the boot?