Disagree on the oled thing. Oled is better in a lot of cases, specially if everything on the screen is constantly changing. However, for a computer that will be displaying the taskbar 70% of the time its not ok. Oled burn in is a thing
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Pistcow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Aye, I owned both. Got an LCD when it first came out and bought an OLED when they came out. Treat yourself, in all situations of visual screens OLED is better.
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
scholar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Auto hide the taskbar, burn your wallpaper instead. Oled burn is really is much less of an issue these days thanks to better panels and pixel shifting tech.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I have a folder of backgrounds they switch every hour just for this reason.
But I hardly ever see them with full screen apps anyway and app/spaces switching with gestures is like second nature. Like having a laptop with 4-5 monitors.
lastweakness@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is pixel shifting a thing on Linux? The Steam UI too?
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 3 weeks ago
Pixel shifting is done entirely on the monitors firmware nowadays, no OS intervention necessary.
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 3 weeks ago
To quote Rtings:
under normal circumstances, with mixed usage, burn-in isn’t an issue
Even if your task bar is on 70% of the time, you’re not going to see any significant burn-in.
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Every Android phone I’ve owned with an OLED screen (including modern ones) have had burn-in (or rather, burn-out) problems.
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 3 weeks ago
Phone AMOLED screens are entirely different beasts compared to QD-OLED/WOLED on TVs and monitors.
Phone OLEDs are much more dense, run much hotter and brighter, most also lack pixel shifting and many even pixel refreshing.
I also had some severe burn-in on phones.
arschfidel@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Really? That’s interesting, because I’ve never noticed burn-in on any of my OLED phones, even though I did use them for many years each. But then again, I’ve always wondered why seemingly nobody talks about burn-in on phones, while there is a lot of fuzz being made around it on computer monitors.
Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Right? Even just turning off the screen every day is good enough for the life of the screen.
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What kind of time frame were they testing over? Not seeing any significant burn in means something completely different if they’re testing for one year versus ten, especially for people who don’t like replacing things that aren’t totally unusable yet.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
A lot of people have done burn in tests on the OLED, and it’s barely a concern. The tech has really improved.
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Since you said ‘the oled’ i assume you mean the steam deck oled. Im not denying its bad, on contrary. Steam deck is a device that is constantly changing whats displayed. Thats good to prevent burn in on any device. The guy said oled os always better, which is what i disagreed with. Ive seen enough phones and computers monitors that were oled that had the windows taskbar, or android status bar, burned in over the years cause its a static thing
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Even then, the concerns are way way way waaaaaay overblown.
Hardware unboxed have been purposely trying to burn in an OLED for thousands of hours, and it’s still barely perceptible even when you’re trying to look for it.
With any modern OLED display, burn in is something you don’t need to worry about.
nemith@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I used an OLED tv as my computer monitor for over 2 years. Never had any burn in.
despoticruin@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I have a Phillips evnia ultrawide that has accumulated over 6000 hours SOT over the last year and a half, over 3k of that was playing RuneScape 3. You have to turn the brightness down to 10% and be on a flat grey screen to even see the beginning of burn in. It’s really a non issue, even in “torture” scenarios like getting 200m mining xp on the screen full time.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
This is a steam deck, a game console, not a normal computer. If your taskbar is visible 70% of the time I question what you’re doing with the device.
jali67@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Makes you wonder why Nintendo decided to make the base Switch 2 model LCD
deus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Because it’s cheaper to make and allows them to release an OLED version at a premium later.
jali67@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I figured but it just feels like a nuisance for many of us
deus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, it seems to be a huge improvement over the LCD screen on the OG Switch so there’s that. Besides, an OLED hardware revision isn’t a given by any means, it’s just speculation.
frank@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Man and it’s so much less hot, less heavy
AngryPancake@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I can replace my LCD with an OLED, right?
TheBat@lemmy.world [bot] 3 weeks ago
No.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There are aftermarket mods to upgrade to a 1080p OLED (which you probably don’t want to do anyway because 1080p is much harder to run)
But you can’t drop the SD OLED’s display into the LCD model, no.
HoloPengin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The only thing I dislike about it, having seen the in-store demos, is the fringing on text and hard edges. It can looks like chromatic abberation in very comtarsty games. The OLED subpixel layout just isn’t quite ideal, especially at 1280x800 7.4".
The LCD version has less issues there.
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I believe you. But it’s funny, I have both, LCD and DeckSight. I can tell the difference if they’re side by side. But often times I forget the OLED is an OLED 🤷♂️
dukemirage@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
On the other hand, the LCD is perfectly fine.
Pistcow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Its perfectly ok. The OLED runs cooler, brighter, and better battery life. Don’t get me wrong when I got the led steamdeck when it first came out I played it more than my gaming PC. Steam deck is awesome but if you can manage the few bucks more always go OLED. I literally sold the LED at a steep discount and bought the OLED and dont regret it.