On the newest WOLED's I am not too worried about static elements.
I browse and Visual Studio on my Corsair Xeneon Flex (prototype).
The new RTINGS tests are showing that the newest WOLED panels are really resisting burnin much better.
I think you'll easily go quite a while at moderate picture settings (75% brightness or less)
Look at the new RTINGS OLED testing video. You see the pattern. They're confirming what I say, newer LG WOLED panels lasts much longer now.
You'll get the phosphoresent temporary-image retention effects, that disappear after 5-10 minutes. And of course, the usual OLED dark-greys uniformity quirks (which you gotta, of course, compare with IPS glow and BLB issues too.) Pick poison. But OLED has the fewest high-Hz poisons for a lot of us!
Remember, dialing the nits back by half or two-thirds, during desktop use, can actually add 4x-10x+ more lifetime to your OLED, pushing it beyond your purchase-lifetime of your OLED. Still brighter than an average well-worn Dell 60Hz monitor that's been sitting in an office since ancient times. Ha.
But for me, image retention is not a worry if you use moderate Windows Desktop brightnesses. Save your nit surges for your HDR gaming; for your cyberpunk-scene neon lights and 1957 chevy chrome sunglints etc, where you definitely want to enjoy a few 1000-nit pixels for. Most gaming HUDs are typically not rendered in HDR-league brightnesses, fortunately, but I'd love to see an adjustable HUD brightness/intensity in more games, ideally.
RTINGS is pushing them hard intentionally, and the LG C2 WOLED had no burnin.
https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/longevi ... te-3-month
Do best pratices and dial back your max-nits during Windows desktop usage, and it'll probably last the entire lifetime of the monitor now. Some have even have used LG OLED TVs as computer monitors for 2 years with no computer burn-in, because them dialed them down to normal-office brightness, and a few other best-pratices.
I'm sure you can do the same for QD-OLED or LG WOLED.
That being said -- interestingly with the common white-on-black and black-on-white texts of computer usage -- for general-purpose computer use, it is probably easier with LG WOLED thanks to how it uses the white pixel as a brightness-enhancer to offload the wear of R/G/B pixels. And your bright white HUD elements and Windows apps won't burn-in your R/G/B subpixels. Also, the white is very interestingly a fuller-spectrum white (more pleasing on my specific eyes than a white generated by R/G/B), rather than a white generated by R/G/B, so you get more brightness-per-pixel-power for a lot of common general-purpose computer use, reducing the odds that a specific brightness will create burn in. The addition of a W subpixel certainly has pros/cons, but the W really greatly reduce burn-in risk from general purpose computer use.
Another tip: A third party font renderer (
www.mactype.net) makes text looks better on all OLEDs, if anyone here is bothered by the text rendering on OLED due to all those odd-pixel-layouts -- these subpixel design decisions were intentionally done by both vendors to reduce burn in risk.