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In matters of taste, I like both light and dark mode equally.

In terms of practicality:

- Dark mode uses less energy and doesn't burn your eyes at night.

- I've only ever found light mode useful when the ambient light is really strong, e.g. direct sunlight shining on my laptop screen. When this happens dark mode is basically impossible to read even with full screen brightness.

So 99.9% of the time dark mode will suit my needs better.

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Yes, on an OLED panel dark mode saves energy, but not on, say, an LCD panel

I could be wrong but I think it's only saving power if pixels are actually solid black where the pixel can be turned off entirely. I don't think dark shades are more power efficient than other colors. Thankfully a lot of apps are getting explicitly named OLED dark modes to take advantage of that.

Haven’t thought about that, but it doesn’t sound wrong. Will have to look into that

It would have saved a negligible amount on a CRT monitor of the time, as well.

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