>the fonts on my Linux box either render strangely or are downright ugly Out of curiosity, which distro are you using? It sounds like there are missing fonts a

>the fonts on my Linux box either render strangely or are downright ugly Out of curiosity, which distro are you using? It sounds like there are missing fonts and your system is falling back to some really bad fonts in their place. The fix may be just installing a couple packages with more fonts.