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by 15457345234 855 days ago
Windows used to be good for this as you've said, if you set the window background to a moderate grey it would propagate across almost everything properly - even Word and Excel - and you'd never end up staring into a pane of pure white, which wasn't so bad with CRTs (because pushing the brightness up on CRTs reduced sharpness) but with big LCD panels, especially when they were brand new and had non-degraded backlights was horrific.