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The font rendering on Linux is so much nicer than on Windows, especially on web fonts. I use Windows at work, and it drives me crazy how bad the font rendering
by NoGravitas 11y ago
The font rendering on Linux is so much nicer than on Windows, especially on web fonts. I use Windows at work, and it drives me crazy how bad the font rendering can be sometimes (and yes, I have used the cleartype tweaking tool, thanks).
- ue_ 11y agoThe font management (installing and enabling) isn't so nice. I don't know how it is on Windows, but on GNU/Linux it even comes down to editing dotfiles containing snippets of XML in your home directory to enable or disable certain fonts or rendering methods. Gentoo partially solves this by having eselect fontconfig.
- zxcvcxz 11y agoAll I had to do was extract the font files into ~/.fonts/.
- NoGravitas 11y agoInstalling and enabling fonts is pretty much just dropping them into a directory fontconfig knows about. Now as far as disabling certain (installed) fonts or switching rendering methods, specifying particular rendering methods for particular fonts, or specifying replacements for fonts you don't have installed or don't want to use -- those things do require editing XML dotfiles. But as far as I know, they can't be done at all on Windows (at the user or system-wide level; I think applications can do them for themselves).
- pmelendez 11y ago> The font rendering on Linux is so much nicer than on Windows, especially on web fonts I actually like the other way around. I don't like the font rendering on Linux... not even in Firefox.