I’m gonna get downvoted to oblivion for this…
I just got my new OLED and weirdly enough, upon booting it I saw something that I didn’t even think of till now. With the new OLED, the sub-pixel arrangement is slightly different than the LCD, and it’s causing white edge (specially on text) to have this green/magenta fringing. It’s extremely faint, and it’s not particular to the Steam Deck since I know of other OLED panels that have the same fringing. However I have heard zero mention of this and I have to say that although this matters close to nothing while playing videogames, it’s something I do see with subtitles.
With this out of the way, the screen looks amazing and I’m more than ready to sell and replace my LCD deck now. I hope the technology gets there where this isn’t an issue anymore!
This is very interesting because I thought it was a stripe but apparently not…
If you turn off anti-aliasing, the fringes will go away but then you won’t have “smooth” edges. You could also alternatively use greyscale AA instead of subpixel AA (which would be using the individual RGB subpixels).
for greyscale in the .fonts.conf file for “rgba” have it say “none” as the value instead of “rgb”.
This is what passes for stripe on OLED. The Switch layout is similar. It does have one R, G, B stripe per pixel, but you can see that they aren’t laid out in a simple, equal way like on LCDs.