Linux Desktop Distros with Quality Fonts?

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 11, 2004 @01:05PM from the out-of-box-experience dept.

occamboy writes "I'm trying to make a case for switching to Linux desktops, and would like to demonstrate how advantageous Linux is. While the advantages of Linux are more obvious for us techies, I'm finding that many non-technical types are immediately negatively biased by the look of Linux desktops. The problem boils down to screen fonts. It seems that, in the distributions that I've demonstrated, the screen fonts are either all aliased, or are aliased in some places and antialiased in others, which I've been told resembles a ransom note with letters cut from different magazines. I can understand where these critics are coming from; after all, they are staring at fonts on a monitor all day long. Are there any distributions that I can demonstrate which provide smooth and consistent screen fonts without requiring a lot of messing around?"

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Re:all-antialiased just as bad/worse by Sandmann · 2004-09-11 13:50 · Score: 3, Funny

> I am of the opinion that linux is ugly, ...

Try 2.6.9-pre1. It is much prettier.
Re:OT- Simple guide to Linux? by the_greywolf · 2004-09-11 13:59 · Score: 2, Funny

don't forget there are several live CD distros, suck as Knoppix

freudian slip, i'm afraid. i didn't mean it. really. :P

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grey wolf
LET FORTRAN DIE!
Re:I don't think so. by T-Ranger · 2004-09-11 15:32 · Score: 2, Funny

Comic Sans
It should be legal to kill anyone who uses Comic Sans.
Re:I don't think so. by magefile · 2004-09-11 17:47 · Score: 4, Funny

Last time I was in a school lab, the babysitter (she doesn't know squat, so that's all she is, really) chastised me for changing the monitor to 75Hz (the max it would do). Apparently, it "uses less electricity" at lower Hz. Thank goodness it only goes as low as 60!
Re:Mandrake 10.0 by wolftone · 2004-09-12 13:01 · Score: 2, Funny

opinions aside, gentoo is definitely not debian-based.