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I tried the Samsung OLED, a recent one. It was absolutely burning my eyes. Headache, eye strain, the whole nine yards. Switched back to my ancient Samsung LCD and it all went away. My working theory was something about PWM modulation in the backlighting. Either way I don't need it.

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I use LG C2 OLED's and I experience eye straining that I don't on LCD monitors. I haven't had the time to look into the cause.

First I would make sure the brightness isn't too high, and then I would consider if the problem is text on screen. The LG OLED panels have WRGB pixel layout, so it doesn't work quite right with the likes of ClearType on Windows. Instead I use MacType on my PC with a modified profile and 117% zoom in windows, and now it's fine to me (the font was an issue when I first got my OLED).

Yeah. PWM is used to control brighness of OLEDs. Some people are sensitive to PWM frequencies as high as 200Hz.

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