I've been saying glossy screens are pure cancer for 20 years and every time I was dismissed as a Luddite that should get with the times.

Now they can sell you "nano texture" at a premium after getting you hooked on functionally terrible displays (they look pretty in the store though).

My worst experience with glossy displays was when I had to perform some work outside on a sunny day and I comically could not see a single thing. It looked like a pure black square. I laughed, packed up and left, and told my boss it wasn't happening.

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tdesilva 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

glossy screens are better for visual clarity, especially contrast (reduces eye strain when reading text)

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schmuckonwheels 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes the visual clarity of staring into a reflection of my own shirt, and any light within 10m.

There is no worse eye strain that looking at anything that isn't supposed to be on the screen. It's 90% noise.

	▲	cubefox 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The glossy screens have like 2% more contrast but 300% more distracting reflections.

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koiueo 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Unappealing PC matte screens are for old farts who can't appreciate sexy rounded corners and perfectly rendered fonts¹

¹ assuming your display yields over 300dpi

If you are a cool kid, you'll prefer glossy screen any day. Only with deep contrasty blacks will you be able to appreciate your low-contrast macos interface or your low-contrast VScode solarized theme. Occasional gorgeous reflection of stunning you squinting at the screen is just a nice bonus.

But I have to give it to Apple: PC glossy screens are mostly even worse.