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Hey! Here is my experience about the same eye strain problem:
- I use DELL P2415Q monitors (4k at 60Hz)
- MacOS on macbook pro 2015 works seamlessly (main main work station for years)
- Windows 10 gives again beautiful pain-free picture on the same monitor
- Linux gives me eye strain instantly (as to many of you). I have tried intel gpu, amd, and nvidia cards. All of them gave the same eye strain on the same monitor.
I have not tested playing around with the dithering, so can't tell if that helps in my case. I am closely looking for the solution as I would switch to Linux as my main work station.
My guess is that the problem is about refresh rate. If I set it manually to 30Hz then it feels very painful to me, then if I put it to normal 60Hz it still gives me pain. So I feel that the driver somehow incorrectly set the refresh rate. However xrandr and things like that shows that the refresh rate is around 60. So I have no technical knowledge to understand how the driver can mess it up with the refresh rate anyways..