I find the the e-ink displays are doing us a bit of a disservice. I mean, yeah, it's nice that there is a solution that at least is usable, but we would have to find out what was it that was chagned in display tech a few years ago and fix that.
Now if the idea starts floating around that there is a group of people just categorically intolerant to LCD and OLED displays, that is just plain wrong.
I for one have the 5 year old Geforce connected to HPZR2740w display and that does not irritate my eyes no matter howm much I used it.
I also have and have had serveral LCD smartphones like Moto G100 now, that give zero eye strain. So I for one I'm not intolerant categorically to LCD's, just flickering LCD, be the flicker PWM or temporal ditering.
Now I have some early information on a possible finding: I got yet another laptop from a customer that I have to use. I was not able to connect it to the HP display, so I got a Huawei Mateview 28. It is clear that the laptop irritates my eyes when connected to the Huawei display, but I'm in the process of confirming whether my Geforce desktop irritates also. Seems like it does not.
= if this is the case, then it is an important finding as then it is sure that it is something that is done in the Intel Iris display adapter or driver level. The desktop has gone through all versions of windows, now currently 11.
This is also in a way what I have suspected. I have tested dozens of laptops and lcd phones and I find it hard to believe that they changed suddenly something in each and every laptop LCD panel level. It is more likely that they changed something on the display adapter level.
Someone on another thread complained about Geforce 3090 giving eye strain, so that also supports the idea - now more recent Gefornces have the same change that the Intel Iris adapters have had since 5+ years.
Though I'm contradicting myself - I have Lenovo x280 with fairly recent intel graphics and it does not irritate my eyes at all.