so this is my story:
I noticed eye strain since Windows 11 22H2. when i was in 21H2, everything was good.
Since the 22H2 version, I noticed I have a serious pain in my eyes. At that stage, I decided to move to Linux. In parallel, I worked at a job which gave me a Macbook. It was a Macbook Pro 13 with i7. I didn't notice anything.
A few months later, after switching jobs, I had to work with Windows 11. I suffered a lot from eye pain but eventually found a solution which gave a little relief to my eyes. this was my solution:
https://ledstrain.org/d/2421-windows-11-eyestarin-and-headches
The laptop I worked with was a Dell precious NVIDIA graphic card.
after the little solution i found, i noticed i still have eye pain but with less pain, but still exist.
So I installed Windows 11 on my PC with an NVIDIA Graphic card and tried to find a solution, but still didn't find it. I even tried a laptop with Intel graphics but I noticed the same eye pain as the work laptop and the PC.
I even tried the ColorControl software on my PC with an NVIDIA card and disabled the dithering but I still noticed eye pain like before.
After a few months, I replaced my work laptop with a Macbook Pro 16 M2, which also gave me eye pain.
Something strange is that a friend of mine has a macbook pro 13 with i7 like i had with the same MacOS version and i had eye pain like the Macbook Pro 16 M2. I think it's software related.
I could find no solution to the problem. I am now using betterDisplay at 160% brightness with laptop screen and with the final version i have a little eye pain. If I work with 100% brightness or below, I have serious eye pain. this is the post i made then:
https://ledstrain.org/d/2525-macos-apple-silicon-eyestrain
Now, I tried to install Linux in my PC with NVIDIA Graphic and in the laptop with intel graphic and I also noticed an eye pain with all the desktop environments(I tried all of them for this test). I also checked in the NVIDIA X server that the dithering is off. Now I have on my PC an old pop os linux install which runs fine with latest updates and what seems to me odd is that in 144hz i don't have any eye pain but with 60hz or 100hz i have eye pain.
In addition to all that, I tried a few phones. I tried galaxy S23 which didn't do anything, i tried google pixel 6a which gave me an eye pain and tried an iPhone 15 Pro which doesn't do anything until iOS 17.1.2, which IMO, Apple enabled temporal dithering because i feel terrible from iOS 17.1.2 until 17.4(now). I even tried my iPad with the same results.
I also have an android phone with LCD screen which allows me to replace OS versions(roms). So I tried AOSP Android 11(like google os), which was fine for me and then tried AOSP Android 13(like google os), which caused me eye pain like the pixel 6a. Because of that i'm sure my problem is related to software and not hardware
So to summary:
1. Windows 11 give an eye pain without any relation to temporal dithering
2. Every Android phone beside Galaxy’s give me an eye pain which seems related to software
3. In the Linux OS, i also got an eye pain but seems something in the software
4. In iPhones in their latest iOS version, i know that the eye pain i get is from temporal dithering
5. MacOS also causes me eye pain. It seems its related to temporal dithering
So the first 3 problems seem the same. I'm trying to find which visual effect/software component causes this eye pain.
Does anyone know something about software components related to rendering or visual effects besides temporal dithering?