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Windows 10 and OS X now offer "flux" natively, as does iOS (after the whole debacle of forcing fl.ux out of the app store and then implementing the feature into the OS for themselves).

I was a loyal f.lux user for a long time, but now there's really no point.

Additionally, f.lux doesn't (perhaps didn't, I should check the changelog on this new version) take into account OS-native color shifting and (at least on Windows) caused "night mode" to be enacted on top of the OS' own "night mode" leaving me with a... let's just say very drab screen as a result.

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I thought the same thing, so I disabled f.lux and turned on Nightshift on Mac OS. To my surprise, nothing happened. It turns out that it doesn't work with my monitors for some reason. They are non-Apple and thus not supported. Back to f.lux which works perfectly. Additionally, f.lux has more con-figurability, it's easy to disable quickly if I need to for a short period, etc.

I personally prefer the OS doing less, but more stability and better, and allowing me to customize through apps. I feel that over the last few years, Mac OS has gone "wide" with features and has gotten less stable.

> doesn't work with my monitors for some reason. They are non-Apple and thus not supported.

I've got a 2012 Mac Mini with Dell display connected over DP, and night shift just works. So at least some non-Apple displays are supported. Not sure what's the difference here.

FWIW, windows night mode works fine on any monitor.

Also you need a "powerful" GPU (i.e. Metal), so not every Mac which is able to run Sierra supports Nightshift.

flux blows away the native options, which really feel like hacked together afterthoughts

I came here to ask this- can you briefly tell me what's better? I'm the guy who only cares about two things- red in evening and blue during day. Should I care for something more?

https://forum.justgetflux.com/topic/3655/f-lux-vs-night-shif...

Flux has much wider colour options, for one. I'd love for night shift to go warmer.

I like having darkroom mode. Don't think macos/nightshift has that yet.

And so does latest Gnome on Linux (like Fedora 26)

comes with built-in redshift? couldn't find the option.

Settings > Displays > Night Light

$ gnome-shell --version

GNOME Shell 3.24.2

F.lux was never in the iOS app store; it affects the whole system and uses private APIs to achieve that (or a jailbreak). They (ab) used the enterprise distribution for a while to circumvent the app store. I forgot what exactly happened, either Apple pulled the certificates, or they asked to have it removed.

Same with Android, as I just found out.

KDE Plasma has support for redshift as well.

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