Embarrassingly dumb question: if you’re one of the few users who don’t run a dark background terminal … how well do these TUI render (in a light background)?

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deepspace 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Not a dumb question at all. I grew up using actual green screen terminals, and the advent of high-resolution colour monitors and applications with dark text on a white background felt like a blessing. I truly do not understand the regression to dark mode. It's eyestrain hell for me.

Unfortunately, I was unable to test in my light-background terminal, since the application crashes on startup.

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alanbernstein 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

If I'm working in a dark room, then light mode is eye strain hell. With dark mode, the minimum brightness I can achieve is about 100x lower than with light mode.

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zozbot234 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

OLED monitors will bring green screen terminals back in style quite soon (with occasional orange and red highlights for that Hollywood haxx0r UX effect)

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zaochen1224 3 days ago | parent [-]

The worst is when you're in dark mode and suddenly open a website or PDF that's pure white. Instant flashbang.

	▲	hxugufjfjf 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I thank Apple every day for adding dark mode to the native PDF viewer for this exact reason.

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oneeyedpigeon 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

My personal experience is mixed. Half the time, I get something usable, the other half I get something that prints light yellow on slightly-darker yellow or highlights an item with a dark blue background and dark green text. I'm sure there's something I can tweak in my terminal app to fix this, but it's easier to just avoid those apps.