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Re:Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Release Candidate by fierarul on Thursday September 30, 2010 @10:32AM (#1743362)
Fonts were the most ugly part of Linux by far to me and the reason I bought an iBook long ago. The other reason was perfect hardware support so I could suspend / resume properly.

I don't expect Canonical to support all the hardware in the world, but everybody stares at the OS font all day long.

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Re:Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Release Candidate by carlrice on Thursday September 30, 2010 @11:58AM (#1743681)
Smoothing and proper metrics were default in 9.04+ and before that accessible via a GUI interface for manual tweaking. Replacing FreeSans with a well tailored family is just finishing the job (so you don't have to.)
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Re:Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Release Candidate by lars512 on Friday October 01, 2010 @10:23AM (#1747101)
Fonts have been getting better, but the first thing I do is to load up a new install with fonts imported from OS X and Windows. I find these improve the attractiveness of the desktop greatly.
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