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hrm. I do all of my real work on linux and am writing this comment on my linux workstation - so I'm far from a linux basher. But, getting fonts that don't suck
by elq 19y ago
hrm. I do all of my real work on linux and am writing this comment on my linux workstation - so I'm far from a linux basher.
But, getting fonts that don't suck ass takes a lot of dingy work on linux (fedora, ubuntu, arch, you name it - in my humble experience). And even after that work, the fonts are still ugly compared to either windows or osx.
And personally (being an old bsd guy), I find macports makes far more sense than yum (what a pile of crap), apt isn't so bad, but I still prefer a port tree.
- tx 19y agoInteresting... I haven't tried anything but apt, but everything I've ever need has always been on it, and of a relatively latest version with hot updates. Regarding fonts, it's subjective matter of course, but you can look at my desktop (I just did a screen shot) with my font settings. Here we go, no text file editing, just adjusted my font appearance in "Fonts" tab in Gnome: http://kontsevoy.com/gutsy.png http://kontsevoy.com/gutsy.png My wife has been envious about this "punchy" font rendering for quite some time (until she got a Mac), but my colleagues at work still are (they're still on Windows).
- rms 19y agoYeah, Ubuntu now comes pre compiled with the patent violating good font rendering. I run with no font smoothing and full hint. Much better than when you used to have to recompile the kernel. Doesn't look like Apple is going to sue anytime soon.