Re:Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target ...
by Terretta on Friday May 27, 2022 @09:33AM
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Since you bring it up, my second sysadmin gig was head of systems for a printing company, late 80s - early 90s, where I brought them into the digital typesetting era. So I also know more than a thing or two about fonts.
But I suspect you bringing it up, and me responding to it, doesn’t make either position more authoritative. And given “I’ve written more books than I can count” it could be your discernment of numbers or bar for objectively counting things is lower. ;-)
About retina vs. non retina, I’d argue font rendering algos matter more the less resolution they’re working with, so are even more important on non-retina displays. I’d further argue MacOS regressed on this by killing off sub-pixel rendering in Mojave, effectively dropping support for non-retina.
On low quality displays, Windows and Linux could/should look better than MacOS. When they don’t, they’re “doing it wrong”.
I do not expect a non-retina display to display fonts as beautifully as a retina display, just to make things clear.
What I'm saying is that fonts under Linux aren't bad to the point of being uncomfortable.
And just to make it clear: I've got Windows and Linux, on non-retina displays, showing the same sites. Linux ain't worse.
There's a big difference between saying: "Retina displays are better than non retina ones" and saying: "Linux font sucks".
Yup: not everyone is on 4K / retina display. We know that. It doesn't make font rendering on Linux broken.