jasonpicard NCIX used to have a horrible return policy, but they don't exist anymore.
I've heard others claim Amazon is good.
Not sure about Memory Express or Canada Computers.
What works for you, what do you use now without problems?
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Canada Computers is great. Staples is great except the monitor selection probably won't help too many people on here. Amazon is great. Best Buy Is awesome. I have bought and returned monitors to all these places many times. I tell them straight up the monitor gives me eye strain and migraines. Never had a problem. Amazon I think you just check a box not sure it's been awhile since I returned one to them.
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jasonpicard The concern for me using Amazon for monitors is the shipping can be all the way from and to Ontario and that's a bit far and expensive (I'd also be concerned about damage)
Some other great points though.
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Guys, do you find recent Chrome or Windows 10 versions easier on the eyes? I was amazed that making clean W10 install resurrected my MS Surface Pro usability. It used to cause me nausea just after few seconds of staring at it and it's not doing it anymore in W10 or in Chrome (which I remember to be inferior to Edge in this regard). The issue still exists with older full-sceen games, so it's not something related to "me" (although I have new glasses, which may help). Now I can read webpages for multiple hours and nothing unusual happens. If it's not a general thing, then probably some of my settings was wrong - maybe bad driver, unnecessary color profile (there's no native Surface profile installed now) ...
andc I don't find that the latest versions are "perfect" but in fact much much better. I've used a few systems for quite a few minutes before going "hey, this is new Win10, isn't it?" and my jump boxes which under 17xx and 18xx versions of Win10 were unusable even in terminal session... are now acceptable again. So I'm going to say 1903 is pretty solid here. It's a lump of trash in many other ways (if I'm wearing my sysadmin hat). But "better". Chrome also got "better". v69/70 were TERRIBLE. Newer versions are pretty ok. Firefox did the same thing. Not sure what keeps changing.
That's good news, at least there's a chance that someone knows what needs to be fixed 
At my work they moved me from LTSB 2016 to SAC 1803. Rendering is not as comfortable anymore, and I was unhappy about it. I have no choice but to fiddle and get used to it. They did say they are testing 1809 now, so I don't have to worry about being stuck on 1803 for 3 years. I really don't get why people like Windows 10, seems like every time a new build is pushed out, it breaks a ton of stuff for everyone and for this reason I dislike software as a service.
).Gurm It's been a while since I used W10 and I know there's tweak tools but I thought big updates like Creators Update brought Cortana etc back. Like @Sunspark said I'm not a fan of the SAAS model either, but as long as I have control over updates to some degree I'm happy (might look into the LTSB version).
For me, on Surface there's no other option, at least official . With some hacks 7 or 8 might be possible, but I guess more issues will be present because of non-standard drivers, etc.
22 days later
Has someone ever tried the new notebooks with oled screens? maybe they could be good for our eyes...
JTL Have you tried the new oled smartphone display with dc dimming option?
eyestrainsolutions No. Because no smartphone with DC dimming is available on display where I live
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Staycalmsyndrome Hey @KM just noticed this reference to Android 7.1.2 by @Staycalmsyndrome, specifically without patches after 2018, to be comfortable for him ("Android 7.1.2 with patches > 2018 = QQ"). His tablet is also on 7.1.2 So Paranoid Android dev left out or forgot some patches that OnePlus team applied, as we suspected.