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Controversial opinion: if your monitor is set to the proper brightness for the room's ambient light, light or dark theme becomes a matter of preference. If you're in a completely dark room with your brightness set to 100%, then of course a light theme won't work.
Depends on the person's eyes as well. I have a pretty bad astigmatism that makes dark mode god awful to read.
Thank you! I hate how many people act like dark mode is The One True Way these days. No, I don't want to use feckin' dark mode, I'm sorry I don't have your 1337 h4x0r eyes. I have shoddy astigmatism eyes and find it very uncomfortable to use dark mode.
But i have to have my monitor on max brightness else i can't see anything due to my dark theme!
The problem I have with light theme is contrast. I can't read skyblue text on cool white background.
Although the one light theme is quite good in that regard.
My problem is kind of the opposite - most light themes I've seen are too contrasty and I can't discern the different colours all that well, moreover too much contrast is tiring to my eyes. Black text on white background is about the same as white text on black background. Most of the time I prefer dark themes, but those with low or medium contrast.
Fair enough, whatever works for you - but I feel like this is more of an exclusion and the majority of people are just too lazy to set their monitor brightness properly.
Not an opinion, I have an actual situation with my eyes where they twitch uncontrollably when presented with bright lights for a long period of time. I have tried minimum screen brightness, lowered contrast/colors, auto brightness based on the environment, various software solutions to removing blue light 24/7 from the screen - none of it worked. Went permanently dark theme on everything, magically eyes haven't twitched in years.
Light theme vs dark theme is not just a preference, it's an actual accessibility need for some of us.
The opposite is true as well! Some people literally can't read white text on a black background.
Including both light and dark mode is a matter of accessibility!