Yeah, that's fair. I think there's a "Windows XP" preset for Infinality-patched FreeType and it gets pretty close to what Windows does. Its rendering of 9pt Seg

Yeah, that's fair. I think there's a "Windows XP" preset for Infinality-patched FreeType and it gets pretty close to what Windows does. Its rendering of 9pt Segoe UI is near identical to Windows', except for slightly softer font smoothing, but this doesn't seem to be annoying for Windows users (it's probably less than the difference between GDI and DirectWrite.) I heard of this because a friend switched from Windows to GNOME 3 a little while ago and told me about the Infinality preset. He seemed to be very happy with it.