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Font HOWTO For Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the making-it-pretty dept.

big-dog writes "The Register is running a good HOWTO on getting fonts to look better in Linux." Making things look purty is always good.

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  1. My font HOWTO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Mac OSX font howto:
    Install.

    Windows font howto:
    Install.

    Flaimbait, sure. True, yes.

  2. Why would you ever want to? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Linux was designed to be the ultimate alternative to Microsoft(TM) OSs... it seems completely flumpiferous to then start trying to emulate the Windows OS by making it "pretty" and easy to use.. the whole point in linux and other POSIX OSs is that it takes more than 2 braincells to use and in return you get greater control and reliability..

    It seems to me, (unix admin of 10 years), that X-Windows is just a silly way of enticing the general public to use an OS which isnt even designed for them in the first place... and if you're going to use X-Windows then at least dont bloat out your entire distro by introducing fonts and suchlike.. I mean blackbox I can tolerate for remote admin tools but KDE and suchlike?! Its just copycatting the unstablility of Microsoft(TM) products while dissolving an otherwise unified userbase.

  3. LMFAO by frawaradaR · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    With fonts looking like this, it is quite understandable that Lunix will never ever take off beyond the geek and server layers...

    I wonder how they look without all this hanky-panky required to get very basic antialiasing. And if Chinese, Japanese and other fonts are then bitmapped.

    What about kerning? The examples at the Register look like shit. There's nothing like Mac OS X's ATSUI in Linux?

    Are you happy looking at your bitmap blocks? I would rather die before using such a poor system. Sure, it is of course speedy without such "enhancements", and that is why Lunix boxen are used as servers. No human being needs to look at it!

    --
    frawaradaR anahaha islaginaR!
    1. Re:LMFAO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      It's Linux asswipe. Not lunix! God dam foreigners

  4. Re:Step 1 by cscx · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    How can someone settle for sloppy seconds in fonts? I mean, Linux fonts are one step away from being garbled gibberish!! You shouldn't HAVE to settle for anything less.

    Meanwhile, the Mac has had nice looking fonts (hey guess what, the Chicago and Geneva fonts are still around!) since 1984.

    Looks like Linux is 18 years behind the mainstream. Not like that surprises me or anything.

  5. Shows how much Linux is behind everyone else by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Geez... you guys still haven't got even fonts right?

    And you planned to take over the desktop?! ROFL
    (what happened to that anyway?)

    This just shows how much Linux lags behind all other modern operating systems.... you people think fiddling with fonts is actually newsworthy.

    pathetic