nixCraft 🐧Question: Why do most programmers/developers use a dark theme while writing software/code?
Answer: Because light attracts bugs.
ferricoxide@nixCraft
Easier on the eyes...
Prolongs the life of your LED screen, particularly if it's OLED.
Easier on the eyes...
Prolongs the life of your LED screen, particularly if it's OLED.
Helge Heß@ferricoxide @nixCraft It’s actually from before LED screens, CRT screens had a hard time providing non flickering white backgrounds.
Which is why I find it weird that people choose dark today, proper white works just fine now.
Which is why I find it weird that people choose dark today, proper white works just fine now.
@helge @nixCraft
Having been using computers since the 70s, always found most of the modern "light mode" implementations to be eye-searing. Irony is that the display Postscript systems of the late 80s and early 90s were less fatiguing than the 00s' eye-burners. Probably a function of the difference in light quality produced by cathodes vice LCDs and LEDs.
Having been using computers since the 70s, always found most of the modern "light mode" implementations to be eye-searing. Irony is that the display Postscript systems of the late 80s and early 90s were less fatiguing than the 00s' eye-burners. Probably a function of the difference in light quality produced by cathodes vice LCDs and LEDs.
@ferricoxide @nixCraft I’m not entirely sure what DPS has to do with it, it’s a display hardware thing. I’ve been working with NeXT MegaPixel displays and they’ve been great for the time, but they can’t rival the cheapest LCD available today.
I think eye strain is primarily because they are too capable, tune them down 🙃
ePaper displays are the real contender.
I think eye strain is primarily because they are too capable, tune them down 🙃
ePaper displays are the real contender.