Can someone explain to me why Ubuntu's out of the box font rendering is far superior to almost every other major distribution?
If the technology behind it is open source and readily available to other developers, why do the people behind Fedora, Manjaro, Debian, etc. ship absolute garbage in comparison?
Mac only looks nice when it's in large sizes at high PPI. Those Ubuntu shots look pretty nice.
Ethan Perez
OSX's font rendering is designed with hi DPI from the ground up, that's why it's subpar on normal monitors.
Noah Young
Recently i moved from ubuntu to arch and this is one thing that really annoys me. But i found one solution to it and it works. github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate
Dominic Ortiz
Because Windows, OSX, Arch and Beos users are too busy doing work to worry about ricing their operating systems. Custom fonts, anime girl backgrounds and tiling windows are for baby girls and children
Liam Torres
Just because desktop threads aren't allowed doesn't mean you can indulge in delusions of not ricing.
Dylan Allen
>dat thicc font umfff
Jace Edwards
>windows My bleeding eyes beg to differ.
Christopher Clark
best bitmap monospace font?
I like gohu, but it seems too small
and terminus sucks
Liam Harris
tewi
Julian Ortiz
>tewi how about that color scheme tho
Bentley Stewart
Open the image in a new tab you massive winpleb
Kevin Brooks
>terminus sucks Holy shit, I thought I was the only one who felt this way. I see it being shilled everywhere.
Dylan Brooks
characters are too tall and thin. no box draw characters it seemed.
when I was using Terminus, I would always set it to bold.
Xavier Cook
terminus is the comfiest thing i've ever witnessed you guys don't know shit
Jaxon King
This is something I noticed in every distro, even after installing infinality on arch and doing all the patches and work it still remains inferior to Ubuntu font rendering. It's something that they do to their fonts and a mix of special configuration I guess
Ayden Diaz
they are not that bad
Ethan Miller
good thing arch easily allows you to install fontconfig-ubuntu and freetype2-ubuntu
shit looks peachy yo
Adrian Carter
I can see the subpixel rendering. That's windows alright.
Caleb Evans
and this is ubuntu with antialiasing and hinting disabled
Nathaniel Flores
Just wait until you experience real font rendering, OP.
Nathan Barnes
The pic is from the github repo. Go ask the dev.
Zachary Gonzalez
still looks like shit l0l
Camden Flores
post yours faggot
Wyatt Morgan
It has something to do with graphics drivers, there were a few times when changing drivers would alter the font rendering like it doesn't always look like that.
Jason Mitchell
>Install Infinality >Can't set font to Roboto >All monospace fonts broken. fuck
Charles Mitchell
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Thomas Robinson
are you using an AMD gpu
Noah Bennett
>comparing light and dark text rendering this pic is for reference
also, what monospace font is that?
Landon Powell
>this pic this pic
Aaron Allen
I was posting it as an example of shit rendering as a joke, do you really like the terminal font lol? it's the default font of st terminal which comes with dwm
Luis Flores
fuck that's a bigger eyesore than the non aliased uggo terminal, just install ubantoo or smth
Brayden White
it is using the ubuntu rendering backend
did you open the pic in a new tab?
Isaiah Murphy
yea I zoomed cuz I know what happens when the space is too small to show a pic, it looks exactly like when I installed infinality and left all the settings like that, cute theme tho
Asher Scott
Imagine being this much of a shill
Aaron Russell
the default font for st is Liberation Mono and the default for dwm is the monospace alias
what do these spit out? fc-match "Liberation Mono" fc-match monospace
Logan Fisher
>Mac just makes everything bold kek
Bentley Fisher
Ubuntu paid the patents to use Adobe's subpixel rendering algorithms.
fixed is a font in my list. it's size is overblown (13 on my side I think)? and it's cancer to the eye but I keep it around for shitposting. good job faggot
Luis Robinson
Turkish?
Lucas Wilson
yeah, with a lil romanian and gyppo blood
Daniel Richardson
So is Infinality needed for Ubuntu? I have it set to Linux with a default of Ubuntu. Is it doing nothing then?
Logan Jackson
>those folder icons
just off yourself
Samuel Adams
infinality is still king
Isaac Phillips
>those icons >my eyes
Sebastian Gutierrez
Other distros just let you to set font rendering, because that isn't necessary for all. You can make arbitrary distro looks like ubuntu by rtfm-ing `man 5 fonts.conf`.
Justin Russell
i like termsyn
Jose Jenkins
>T & >T * disgusting
Evan Rodriguez
I like Ohsnap
Levi Phillips
>void **(*)() Jesus fucking christ.
Jace Cox
Because Ubuntu embrace non-free software
Angel Martinez
no. its intel hd 3000.. it does look better with hinting enabled
Aaron Sullivan
rate
Tyler Bennett
Does anyone else here use Mactype? It's broken on a lot of sites but it's beautiful.
Also rate
Brayden Harris
I'm happy with my font rendering.
Levi Butler
What are the best Infinality settings?
Nicholas Gomez
>proprietary [citation needed]
Bentley Perry
I fucking love ubuntu fonts, I use them on arch
Ayden Barnes
void **(*)()
Is this a pointer to a function which returns void**? Also, why return void**?