Ultimate Linux on the Desktop

Re:Ultimate Linux on the Desktop by m45t3r on Friday January 20, 2017 @07:33AM (#13443327)

> The GUI experience on Linux suffers mostly from inconsistency when using applications written with different toolkits

This is true, however Windows suffers from the same problem (and OSX too, however in a minor degree).

> awful font rendering

Only by default maybe. I did tweak my fontconfig (just some symlinks available in /etc/fonts/conf.avail) and IMO the font rendering in my Linux systems are better than my Windows systems (even after tweaking Windows ClearType).

There is the fact that some applications does not support fontconfig, however I can't think anyone that I use daily at least.

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Re:Ultimate Linux on the Desktop by XorNot on Friday January 20, 2017 @10:50AM (#13444623)

The infinality fontconfig patch completely fixes this, but no distribution ships it because of patent encumberence.

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Re:Ultimate Linux on the Desktop by floatboth on Friday January 20, 2017 @12:50PM (#13445490)

Hmm, the FreeBSD port print/freetype2 has LCD_FILTERING ("Sub-pixel rendering (patented)") enabled by default since 27 Nov 2014.

infinality is obsolete. Freetype 2.7.0 ships a new interpreter (that's… based on infinality. but faster and simpler) http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2016-07/...

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Re:Ultimate Linux on the Desktop by XorNot on Saturday January 21, 2017 @02:30AM (#13449268)

I'll have to check if I'm missing something but I haven't been happy with the effect on Ubuntu despite hearing this for a while.

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Re:Ultimate Linux on the Desktop by ENTP on Saturday January 21, 2017 @08:18AM (#13449921)

You are absolutely right. Theres a whole bunch of apps that are 'blurry' when running on a retina display.

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