Normal LED monitors are really bad for people's eyes. The return of "dark mode" websites coincides pretty much perfectly with the switch from CFL to LED. I can't use LED monitors without my eyes hurting, so I am still using a CFL monitor.
I have looked into e-ink to get a higher resolution monitor, but haven't found one that I like. At some point I plan to switch to a newer technology, such as one of the many variants of OLED.
CFL flickers. Plenty of LED-backlight LCDs can run the backlight continuously (most at 100% will do this, and in software you can lower the brightness of the image sent to the monitor).
I don't think that it is the flicker, but the particular wavelengths.
Interesting. CFLs tend to have 5 or so narrow bandwidths whereas LED are a wide spectrum. The one thing I've noticed is that LED-backlit LCDs tend to have a cooler white point out of the box, but that's easily fixed with the custom RGB settings.
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