Font rendering on GTK3 was pretty decent, I'd say on par with Windows and better than Mac (without retina screen). Then GTK4 was released and fonts looked ugly

Font rendering on GTK3 was pretty decent, I'd say on par with Windows and better than Mac (without retina screen). Then GTK4 was released and fonts looked ugly for quite a while. Now they have been improved, but still not at GTK3 level. But hey, now you can rotate text, for whatever reason.