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by burke 4212 days ago
There are exactly two things that always dissuade me from using desktop linux:

1. The font rendering is bad on linux. Especially non-anti-aliased monospace fonts, for some reason, which is what I spend 90% of my day looking at.

2. Multimonitor support is a real pain to configure, whereas on OS X you just plug and go. I have cinema displays at home and at work, and I move around between them a lot. That's really painful on linux.
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simoncion 4212 days ago
> 2. Multimonitor support is a real pain to configure...

Are you using a somewhat recent KDE? At least on the three machines that I regularly use, the management UI looks like [0], and works at least as well as the one in Windows 7.

[0] http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9XFAUJBqajo/TrrwUNlBE3I/AAAAAAAAGY...

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burke 4212 days ago
Likely my problem is that I really like tiling WMs, so end up trying to make my world work with something like xmonad or even dwm. It's entirely possible multimonitor is satisfactory with KDE, and maybe I should give that another shot.

I do, however, know that OS X does font rendering so much better that I have trouble with pretty much any alternative.

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phaemon 4211 days ago
Well, if by "better" you mean "much worse". OSX font rendering is basically inconsistent, blurry blobs (yes, I've used OSX for years as well as various Linux distros).

That's fine if that's what you like, but don't try and pretend that it's in any way objectively "better".

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