Here's my €0.02: In 1998, I liked the active matrix LCD on my Gateway laptop a lot more than the GDM-17E11 Trinitron on my SGI because the Trinitron had these

Here's my €0.02: In 1998, I liked the active matrix LCD on my Gateway laptop a lot more than the GDM-17E11 Trinitron on my SGI because the Trinitron had these 2 fucking wires across the picture, which annoyed me, and also the RGB convergence was off on the edges, and the geometry was poor and heavily bowed by about 0.5" on the bottom. Gross. In 2020, I bought a cheap new-old-stock CRT monitor for retro nonsense, and threw it on an underpowered Linux system in my office for funzies, and I was like HOLY FUCK the response time on this is INSANE, and the blacks are UNREAL. I felt a Responsive Computer-Feeling I hadn't felt since using my CRT'd dual PPro Debian system in college. Blew away every aspect of every LCD in the house, even my overpriced top-of-the-range Sony LCD TV-- apart from the abysmal, headache-inducing max 60Hz refresh rate at a low 1024x768 resolution, distracting flyback transformer whine, and high-ish power consumption, that is. Conclusions: every monitor sucks. Always have, always will. CRTs flicker, LCDs muddle, OLEDs over-contrast and burn in. With apologies to Dorothy Parker: you might as well live. But the glow is real! Gorgeous! I want it on my 70s terminals, but don't need it on my workstation.