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?
>>55244541
That's a good question.
>>55244541
Ubuntu uses a patched, proprietary version of freetype and I love it. It can be installed on almost every other distro I think.
>>55244604
blurry as fuck
>>55244793
as compared to what?
What do you anons think of pic related?
>>55244604
You can get freetype with the Infinality patches on most distros, yeah. I've never done a real side-by-side comparison, but it's bretty damn good.
>>55244541
stock debian and fedora fonts are significantly better than they were 5 years ago, freetype/infinality if you want better
>>55244844
Awful.
>>55244822
mac and windows
>>55244844
looks like ass desu
>>55245093
Windows doesn't even compete in font rendering, Mac's font rendering is just bold fonts.
http://arunoda.me/blog/font-rendering-mac-vs-ubunut.html
>>55245128
Mac only looks nice when it's in large sizes at high PPI. Those Ubuntu shots look pretty nice.
>>55245175
OSX's font rendering is designed with hi DPI from the ground up, that's why it's subpar on normal monitors.
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.
https://github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate
>>55244541
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
>>55245740
Just because desktop threads aren't allowed doesn't mean you can indulge in delusions of not ricing.
>dat thicc font
umfff
>>55245093
>windows
My bleeding eyes beg to differ.
best bitmap monospace font?
I like gohu, but it seems too small
and terminus sucks
>>55246429
>tewi
how about that color scheme tho
>>55244793
Open the image in a new tab you massive winpleb
>>55246393
>terminus sucks
Holy shit, I thought I was the only one who felt this way. I see it being shilled everywhere.
>>55246504
characters are too tall and thin.
no box draw characters it seemed.
when I was using Terminus, I would always set it to bold.
>>55246393
>>55246504
>>55246528
terminus is the comfiest thing i've ever witnessed
you guys don't know shit
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
>>55245093
they are not that bad
>>55246565
good thing arch easily allows you to install fontconfig-ubuntu and freetype2-ubuntu
shit looks peachy yo
>>55246578
I can see the subpixel rendering. That's windows alright.
>>55246613
and this is ubuntu with antialiasing and hinting disabled
Just wait until you experience real font rendering, OP.
>>55246452
The pic is from the github repo. Go ask the dev.
>>55246592
still looks like shit l0l
>>55246857
post yours faggot
It has something to do with graphics drivers, there were a few times when changing drivers would alter the font rendering like >>55246672 it doesn't always look like that.
>Install Infinality
>Can't set font to Roboto
>All monospace fonts broken.
fuck
>>55246882
>>55246672
are you using an AMD gpu
>>55246929
>comparing light and dark text rendering
this pic is for reference
also, what monospace font is that?
>>55246989
>this pic
this pic
>>55246989
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
>>55246997
fuck that's a bigger eyesore than the non aliased uggo terminal, just install ubantoo or smth
>>55247014
it is using the ubuntu rendering backend
did you open the pic in a new tab?
>>55247024
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
>>55246922
Imagine being this much of a shill
>>55247005
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
>>55245128
>Mac just makes everything bold
kek
Ubuntu paid the patents to use Adobe's subpixel rendering algorithms.
>>55247109[jimmy@debugger ~]$
[jimmy@debugger ~]$ fc-match "Liberation Mono"
n022003l.pfb: "Nimbus Mono" "Regular"
[jimmy@debugger ~]$ fc-match monospace
DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book"
[jimmy@debugger ~]$
idk i'm just a simple ARM assembly C and web dev lel
>>55247132
I found it with the power of font autism
it's-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1
>>55247258
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
>>55246929
Turkish?
>>55247384
yeah, with a lil romanian and gyppo blood
So is Infinality needed for Ubuntu? I have it set to Linux with a default of Ubuntu. Is it doing nothing then?
>>55245765
>those folder icons
just off yourself
>>55244541
infinality is still king
>>55245765
>those icons
>my eyes
>>55244541
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`.
>>55246393
i like termsyn
>>55246393
>T &
>T *
disgusting
>>55246393
I like Ohsnap
>>55246429
>void **(*)()
Jesus fucking christ.
>>55244541
Because Ubuntu embrace non-free software
>>55246931
no. its intel hd 3000.. it does look better with hinting enabled
>>55244541
rate
Does anyone else here use Mactype? It's broken on a lot of sites but it's beautiful.
Also rate
I'm happy with my font rendering.
What are the best Infinality settings?
>>55244604
>proprietary
[citation needed]
>>55244541
I fucking love ubuntu fonts, I use them on arch
>>55248814
>>55246429void **(*)()
Is this a pointer to a function which returns void**?
Also, why return void**?
