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by nivertech 1272 days ago
I'm reading this on an X1 Carbon with the OLED screen. The pure black is sometimes unsetting. Sometimes I'm adding brightness but the black stays black, on the IPS screen the black would've become gray which gives you visual feedback, but on OLED there is no such feedback and you think it doesn't work.

I switched everything to the dark mode, not because I like it, or want to save the battery, but because I afraid that the pixels will burn out.

When the laptop is booting it uses the full brightness, also some bootable Linux distros use the full brightness, as they lacking OLED-aware display drivers.

I also enabled auto hide for Ubuntu 22.04's taskbar, not sure for to do it for the topbar.

I use a very low brightness levels ~ 15%, otherwise the colors are too vivid for my taste.

I think dark mode on OLED somewhat saves the batery, but I'm not sure how much. I didn't measured it.