Started coding at the age of 13, now a professional software engineer and Scrum Master, creating and maintaining enterprise solutions. Eat - Sleep - Code - Lift - Repeat 💪🏾
Do you want an app that just makes your monitor orange at night? Then you might as well use whatever.
LightBulb initially released in Feb 2017 as an open-source alternative to F.lux that focused on performance and it got popular among gamers. Unlike F.lux, LightBulb was smarter about when to change gamma, resulting in fewer WinAPI calls and no input lag. It also had a few extra features that F.lux at the time didn't have, which it incorporated in version 4.
Nowadays, people choose LightBulb if they want a blue-light reduction app that gets the job done, but also offers a ton of customization options and extra features that aren't just an afterthought. For example, you can freely customize both your night & day time temperature, your transition duration (you can set it to anything, not just fast or slow like in F.lux), set custom sunrise/sunset times if you don't want to use your location. Besides all that and more, LightBulb has automatic brightness control that works hand-in-hand with color temperature and it really makes a difference for your eyes.
Overall, if you're still using F.lux, you probably have a very good reason and I'm sure it's not the UI :)
Started coding at the age of 13, now a professional software engineer and Scrum Master, creating and maintaining enterprise solutions. Eat - Sleep - Code - Lift - Repeat 💪🏾
To be honest about why I still use f.lux: I got some Swannies and f.lux was just running so I didn't care much about alternatives.
Thanks for taking the time and the pitch! You convinced me to switch with the performance things and the finer control of the transition and the temperatures because that is something I want to control and was missing with f.lux.
Consider me a new user this evening đź‘Ť
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I am using f.lux for a long time now. If you would need to pitch lightbulb to me and convince me to change, how would you pitch it to me?
(trying to figure out if it is worth changing)
đź’ˇ so way
Do you want an app that just makes your monitor orange at night? Then you might as well use whatever.
LightBulb initially released in Feb 2017 as an open-source alternative to F.lux that focused on performance and it got popular among gamers. Unlike F.lux, LightBulb was smarter about when to change gamma, resulting in fewer WinAPI calls and no input lag. It also had a few extra features that F.lux at the time didn't have, which it incorporated in version 4.
Nowadays, people choose LightBulb if they want a blue-light reduction app that gets the job done, but also offers a ton of customization options and extra features that aren't just an afterthought. For example, you can freely customize both your night & day time temperature, your transition duration (you can set it to anything, not just fast or slow like in F.lux), set custom sunrise/sunset times if you don't want to use your location. Besides all that and more, LightBulb has automatic brightness control that works hand-in-hand with color temperature and it really makes a difference for your eyes.
Overall, if you're still using F.lux, you probably have a very good reason and I'm sure it's not the UI :)
To be honest about why I still use f.lux: I got some Swannies and f.lux was just running so I didn't care much about alternatives.
Thanks for taking the time and the pitch! You convinced me to switch with the performance things and the finer control of the transition and the temperatures because that is something I want to control and was missing with f.lux.
Consider me a new user this evening đź‘Ť