Quote Originally Posted by Kristal View Post
For some reason, green-on-black makes me want to gouge out my eyes... it pierces the soul like a million tiny needles >_<
I've seen people choose other color combinations, but that's the beauty of it, you can pick it and enforce it system-wide. My Apple ][ I had as a first computer came with a green monochrome monitor, and I remembered that I didn't get headaches with it, so that's what I set my system to. One of my friends like more blueish text on black, and another likes yellow on black. I picked the color that worked for me after tinkering with it a bit, and I've been on that color scheme since 2005.

Either way, a dark background with bright text is much easier on the eyes when your screen is backlit. Paper isn't backlit, lightbulbs are. Reading black on white on a computer screen is like reading off a lit lightbulb all the time.