> The font rendering on Linux is so much nicer than on Windows, especially on web fonts

I actually like the other way around. I don't like the font rendering on Linux... not even in Firefox.

The font management (installing and enabling) isn't so nice. I don't know how it is on Windows, but on GNU/Linux it even comes down to editing dotfiles containing snippets of XML in your home directory to enable or disable certain fonts or rendering methods.

Gentoo partially solves this by having eselect fontconfig.

Installing and enabling fonts is pretty much just dropping them into a directory fontconfig knows about.

Now as far as disabling certain (installed) fonts or switching rendering methods, specifying particular rendering methods for particular fonts, or specifying replacements for fonts you don't have installed or don't want to use -- those things do require editing XML dotfiles. But as far as I know, they can't be done at all on Windows (at the user or system-wide level; I think applications can do them for themselves).

All I had to do was extract the font files into ~/.fonts/.