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Windows and Linux User Interfaces

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Greg Raiz, Boston based interface designer and former Microsftie takes a look at Linux and outlines key shortcomings and strengths of an OS that could take on a giant."

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  1. To me, this issue always disturbs me by bogaboga · · Score: 5, Informative
    The issue is decent looking fonts. I always have to download the webfonts.sh script http://vigna.dsi.unimi.it/webFonts4Linux/webFonts. sh, and turn off anti-aliasing in order to have a desktop that is a pleasure to work with. Heck ebven the most recent OpenOffice.org release is uglier on Linux than it is on Windows.

    Guys, we need to have an attractive desktop by default in order to make the user experience at least more appealing. In one installation of Ubuntu, I had to tweak the X.org conf file in order to have it display these fonts correctly! And believe me...it took more than 4 hours to get right! Who would have that time in the "real" world?