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by edcastro 3713 days ago
Font is actually pretty much straight forward nowadays with most distros. You just need to enable lcd rgb subpixel rendering and thats it.

I use the Croscore set of fonts, the ones based on the Arial/Times/Courier that Google uses on the Chromebook and for me, it looks even better than on Windows or OSX.

This is my config: https://github.com/edgard/dotfiles/blob/master/config/fontco...
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TheLogothete 3713 days ago
Are you serious?

"X" is pretty great nowadays, you just need to enable some obscure option.

And that's the problem of linux. It's like that for everything.

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izacus 3713 days ago
That option is enabled on most distros by default. Fonts on Ubuntu, elementaryOS, Fedora and other distros look just fine.

I'd you are building your own desktop from building blocks in Arch or similar then configuring obscure options is what you chose to do.

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