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Older I get, I care less about the desktop I use as long as I have a toolbar, can alt-tab my apps, and has nice looking fonts. I look at windows 11 and osx and

Older I get, I care less about the desktop I use as long as I have a toolbar, can alt-tab my apps, and has nice looking fonts. I look at windows 11 and osx and amazed how win10 and linux font rendering is still bad. Only reason i bring it up, the screenshot looks like a nice and fun desktop, but the fonts are still horrible. I have win11 in a vm, and its amazingly nice looking fonts, in win10 I use MacType, on linux I can get terminal fonts to look good and ms code, but the gui/desktop still looks meh.

stronglikedan 4y ago
Can you drag stuff onto the taskbar in Win11 yet? Like drag a file to a folder icon, the folder window appears, and the file is moved to that folder. Or drag a file onto an app icon to open the file in that app. The fact that I couldn't do that in Win11 blew my mind, and was the deal breaker.
- IronWolve 4y ago
  Me too, I reverted due to its horrible toolbar behavior. Now I run it in vmware workstation (for nested virt and tpm chip emu), so I can monitor updates and see when things are fixed, then I'll prob upgrade. WSL2/Android emulation works rather well. I was figuring someone will replace a taskbar replacement eventually and work around microsofts stupidity.
qbasic_forever 4y ago
This helps a lot with font rendering in Linux: https://pandasauce.org/post/linux-fonts/ https://pandasauce.org/post/linux-fonts/ It's a bit of work but I was a lot happier after making all the tweaks. The biggest thing is that Chrome has its own completely isolated view of anti-aliasing independent from the system and you have to take very specific measures to configure it appropriately. I ended up just switching to Firefox and have had less troubles and more consistent fonts.
- IronWolve 4y ago
  I've been using the arch wiki on configuring auto hinter and disabling block fonts, works kinda. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/font_configuration https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/font_configuration

stronglikedan 4y ago

Can you drag stuff onto the taskbar in Win11 yet? Like drag a file to a folder icon, the folder window appears, and the file is moved to that folder. Or drag a file onto an app icon to open the file in that app. The fact that I couldn't do that in Win11 blew my mind, and was the deal breaker.

IronWolve 4y ago
Me too, I reverted due to its horrible toolbar behavior. Now I run it in vmware workstation (for nested virt and tpm chip emu), so I can monitor updates and see when things are fixed, then I'll prob upgrade. WSL2/Android emulation works rather well. I was figuring someone will replace a taskbar replacement eventually and work around microsofts stupidity.

qbasic_forever 4y ago

This helps a lot with font rendering in Linux: https://pandasauce.org/post/linux-fonts/ https://pandasauce.org/post/linux-fonts/ It's a bit of work but I was a lot happier after making all the tweaks. The biggest thing is that Chrome has its own completely isolated view of anti-aliasing independent from the system and you have to take very specific measures to configure it appropriately. I ended up just switching to Firefox and have had less troubles and more consistent fonts.

IronWolve 4y ago
I've been using the arch wiki on configuring auto hinter and disabling block fonts, works kinda. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/font_configuration https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/font_configuration