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by nvarsj 2195 days ago
I think that is a historical artifact. Ubuntu had a set of patches for freetype called infinality, developed around mid 2010, which dramatically improved font rendering. Since then, most of those improvements have been adopted and improved in upstream. [1] Any relatively modern Linux desktop should have very good font rendering.

[1]: https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/subpixel-hinting.htm...

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Except for the hidpi inconsistency across apps and window managers