[aclsid]

I started playing around with Linux since Redhat 5.1, and it is amazing that after all these years, some people still don't get it when it comes to good UI/UX design. The fonts look all out of place even on window titles.

I thought, well it is an open source project with people doing this on their spare time, maybe I should contribute to that project to help, but the issue is so widespread that there really needs to be a frank conversation about it so that all the teams start doing some basic polish on the presentation.

I'm very glad though that the font rendering nightmare is over in Linux and funny enough, IMHO now Windows has the crazy font rendering.

[kgwxd]

It all boils down to the fact that it just doesn't matter. Any hangups exist mostly in our heads, and everyone has different hangups so there's no winning the battle. Some people think consistency is important, I find it causes me to get confused more often, like driving around a cookie-cutter neighborhood where you're never quite sure you're pulling into the right driveway, even though you've lived there for 5 years. Corporations have salaried design teams that need to constantly prove their value, when really they could have stopped working in 1995 and we all would have been just fine.