it’s like that for all the manufacturing industry now days, which is sad. I remember old people when I was a kid talk about “they don’t make them like they used too” and back then I thought that was a bunch of crap but as I am now older I realize that is truer now than ever. Used to you could repair appliances, electronics and so on, and they were made with that in mind. Now they are built to last as long as the warranty is valid, and then they want you to just throw it away and buy a new one. Like for instance I had a washing machine that was like 20 years old go out on me 4 years ago so the wife and I bought a new one thinking that one would last just as long…it already went out a few days ago.
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Can we stick to the topic? Thanks
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i will say yes back to topic…
Also i think it is solved already … not the burnin but the initial question?
Maybe look for Linux specific tools designed to mitigate OLED weaknesses?
I haven’t found any, which is why I asked here. Gobble gobble
Right, I was not hinting you were not looking, I just meant to say, there’s no protection out of the box (as it’s not a widespread problem), but maybe there is something that can be installed. Never mind, my reply was stupid, I read the initial post a day before I answered and remembered it wrong.
I know an organic search engine has nothing to do with pkants - organic LED - well that is new to me 
thank you for making me aware.
So my most recent aquisition of a Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 was not such a bad choice?
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Absolutely horrendous! Ship it to Sweden, I’ll take care of it for you. 
It is what I would pick if I had the money right now.
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Seems like I didn’t get a proper answer, again. Mods please lock this thank you!
Gobble Gobble
Patience, my meleagrian friend. Perhaps someday, someone knowledgeable about this will reply.
Of course, that won’t happen if the mods lock the thread.
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Sorry for this long response.
Yeah you are right. Problem is I want to buy this laptop but as I said in the post, I am not sure how well OLED will hold me up in the long run. I can’t get a top gaming laptop due to prices (There is the ideapad gaming 3 but the screen is very bad), then there are the budget laptops that look appealing but they offer bad performance (or at least future-proof). The vivobook 14x pro looks like a good balance between the two : great screen but it’s OLED so it might have burn in issues and the performance is good but not as great as a gaming laptop.
Regardless, if there are people with OLED screens let me know what could be done.
On the topic of asus laptops : Has anybody managed to use asusctl with a vivobook laptop? I am more interested in the battery charging limit thing
If all else fails, I’m using a secondary drive to boot windows to set up battery charging options using the original software that came with the laptop (a MSI machine). The settings remain saved even after booting back to Linux. Which makes sense as they must be a low level setting in order for the charging limitation to take effect even when the machine is turned off.
Maybe the software modifies some secret values in the bios. Have you tried to remove the windows partition and see if the settings applied are not set to default?
I reinstalled Windows a few times and the setting was retained.
But as I said, the laptop stops charging at the set percentage even when it is off. I indeed think the Windows utility changes some BIOS values.
Reinstalling doesn’t really mean removing but I guess it may be the same thing in this regard. Well, let’s hope it’s true for the vivobook as well. Now about the OLED burn in thing…that will be another topic for discussion
Hey there, sorry if I’m digging quite an old one, but I think the issue is no longer one. I noticed that OLED pixel shift is on when my Ubuntu live USB key. And that Asus changed their MyAsus OLED care settings, you can no longer turn it off now : https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/18rvteh/linux_on_an_oled_display_pixel_shift_on_linux/
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This is interesting…