I have seen many posts talking about how oled screens is hard on the eye for long hours and its text clarity is worse than IPS, also staring at some static texts all day is generally not good for oled.
I found some really good laptops that meet my requirements, but almost all of them have oled 
I don’t think so. OLEDS are good- screen sharpness does not depend on whether it’s an OLED or an IPS panel. It depends on the screen resolution. If You buy a 14 inch 3k/2.8k OLED screen then you would be fine- things will look sharp and detailed.
Yea people also talk about getting a 4k oled screen for that. But I’m thinking of buying a 16 inch 2k ideapad pro 5 so I think mine wouldn’t be as good and as such would experience problems. Around 1300$ to 1500$ it’s just oleds :((
2k in 16 inch format would be really bad. Can’t you look for other options with higher resolution? Lenovo yoga series has some of the best screens out there.
This has a 2.8k display, which model are you looking at that has a 2k display?
My country doesn’t sell those so I can only find the 2k display version (IdeaPad Pro 5 16IMH9). I looked into yogas as you say and found the Yoga Slim 7 14ILL10 (Yoga Slim 7i aura edition) with 2.8k and 14 inch display (https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/Yoga/Yoga_Slim_7_14ILL10?tab=spec) This one looks pretty good for 1300$. Thanks for the recommendation.
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The issue of OLED and text clarity stems from Windows’ ClearType subpixel font smoothing not working with most OLED subpixel layouts.
ClearType expects your display’s subpixels to look like this:
But most OLED displays do not have such a layout. Here’s one example, but there are many others:
Because of this, Windows has color fringing when displaying text. It can be slightly mitigated by increasing density, since the color fringing will be smaller and thus harder to see.
There are some ways to disable RGB subpixel smoothing in Windows by configuring greyscale antialiasing or using programs like MacType.
If you will be using Linux, use greyscale FreeType antialiasing and this won’t be an issue.
The other issue with eye strain is PWM flickering which will depend on the panel. I’d check notebookcheck.net if they have a review of the laptop you’re considering as they publish PWM flicker measurements.
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I have this IdeaPad 5 Pro 16 with the 2.5K IPS (https://psref.lenovo.com/Detail/IdeaPad_5_Pro_16ARH7?M=82SN000FUS). I think the resolution is fine. I dont code much. I work in academic science (molecular biology biochemistry). I do all sorts of text and office work. Rows of excel data, making slides, writing some quick macros and python scripts, staring at PDFs, writing in word for hours on end…I think the text rendering with 2.5K on a 16” is totally sufficient with 100% scaling.
Of course there are better screens out there, and some people may find my screen unacceptable, but I’m just saying there are people like me that find it totally fine as well. TBH you should go to a computer store and try out some laptops and make a note of which displays you liked and then try to find the exact specs. If the store has good sales people they might be able to tell you but the quality of sales people at the Best Buy near me makes me warn you to double check everything they say.
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Yea IPS FHD is fine to me, been using one for years now. I guess I’ll have to see oleds in stores to decide.
My opinion, OLED just hurts my eyes when looking at small text compared to a similar resolution IPS/mini led. The PWM flickering is also worse.
No, burn in could happen but I’ve been by now programming for almost a year on an OLED screen and I haven’t had any burnin issues.(Technically over a year, but OLED screens are made using glass (glass is glass and glass breaks(Zack, Jerryrigeverything)) and mine before recently (one thing, don’t rely on Asus perfect warranty,I made that mistake))