Why I (now) prefer light mode

Beryl sent an email in July, to which I’m only just getting around to replying because I’m a terrible person: Hi Ruben! I hope you are doing well. A very random question, I have noticed that you seem to use light mode in most of your devices, is there any important reason for that or did you try dark mode and just did not like it? I definitely prefer and use light mode when I can now, but it wasn’t always the case. It’s funny how our preferences and requirements change over time. Copyright (c) 1976,1982,1988,1990,1991 Digital Research Inc. [DR DOS] C:\> I used to be ambivalent when it came to modes, and use whatever the tool I was using had without a second thought. Before I started school, I’d hack on the family 486 which was either booted into DOS for QPascal and WordPerfect, or Windows 3.1/95 to run GUI software. The former had what we’d now call a dark mode, and the latter two mostly ran in light mode. But I never stopped to wonder if I could change these. DOS would have let me…