Yes, this post is nonsense. The biggest issue is that macOS doesn't do sub-pixel anti-aliasing and hasn't for many years: the "after" picture looks nothing at a

Yes, this post is nonsense. The biggest issue is that macOS doesn't do sub-pixel anti-aliasing and hasn't for many years: the "after" picture looks nothing at all like macOS! You'd achieve macOS style rendering on Linux by: * disabling hinting completely (don't forget the auto hinter) * disable subpixel anti-aliasing (use only grayscale full pixel anti-aliasing) Then you need to find a way to enable sub-pixel positioning (which uses anti-aliasing to offset glyphs by fractions of a pixel). If your applications are all QT5/6 or GTK4, you're done, because this is enabled by default. Applications that use other text drawing methods (including GTK2/3 but probably others) may need additional adjustment. I think the only sure-fire way of doing it would be to patch Pango / Cairo. Personally, I do most of the above but leave sub-pixel anti-aliasing enabled, because it works better on my low-DPI monitor. The advice given on the page is outright wrong for a few reasons: * it doesn't mention sub-pixel anti-aliasing at all (and leaves it enabled!) * the before picture appears to have less hinting than the after picture, and therefore more macOS like (??) * it doesn't mention sub-pixel positioning at all