I tried different font settings in the font settings and it didn’t improve much (font hinting, anti aliasing, custom DPI settings, different font size)
The font is the default one which is Ubuntu Regular with font size set to 10
Sub pixel order is set properly to RGB Linux Mint xfce
Even when running windows in a virtual machine, the font rendering in it is miles ahead of what I got on my Linux setup!!!
- lemmyvore ( @lemmyvore@feddit.nl ) English22•5 months ago
Can we see some screenshots? It’s hard to work just with someone’s idea of “better”. Not to mention that font rendering can be tweaked on both Windows and Linux and we don’t know what settings you’ve changed so far. Oh and I hope you’re comparing the same font otherwise there isn’t much point you the comparison.
- bizdelnick ( @bizdelnick@lemmy.ml ) 3•5 months ago
And also show
ls -l /etc/fonts/conf.d
I tried to upload a screenshot when creating this post, but it seems there is an issue with the instance I’m on, so I just tried uploading it to Imgur instead so here you go, and oh scaling is set to 1x (there is only 1x which is the default and 2x which I tried today, but it made all the UI elements and text too big and yep I’m not using the same fonts for comparison and I don’t think it is as simple to install and use the font used by win 10 and/or 11, and honestly I do not know if using Microsoft font going to fix this issue or not
screenshot these all are the default settings except maybe for Hinting
- bizdelnick ( @bizdelnick@lemmy.ml ) 9•5 months ago
The biggest problem that I see on this screenshot is that it is a compressed JPEG.
Lol blame linux mint, or is it imgur?
- bizdelnick ( @bizdelnick@lemmy.ml ) 1•5 months ago
I don’t know, however this is impossible to understand what’s wrong with your fonts.
- bbbhltz ( @bbbhltz@beehaw.org ) 14•5 months ago
There are some tips here that might help
https://github.com/dajeed/arch-linux-font-improvement-guide
Important to note that restarting or running
sudo fc-cache -fv
is key when doing things with fonts. - poinck ( @poinck@lemm.ee ) 10•5 months ago
I wonder what someone has to do to have worse looking font rendering on Linux. I find the font rendering on Windows worse in every regard and inconsistent (size). On Linux I just set hinting to slight and anti-aliasing to greyscale and all my fonts look nice. Same font with same size on Windows (VSCode is the only program I use on both OS) looks slightly blurred; only the fact that my work display has a higher pixels density makes it ok for me.
Apparently nothing just get a 10 year old laptop and use Linux mint on it🤷♂️
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English5•5 months ago
Let me guess, Nvidia
Idk but I forgot to mention that now the laptop actually wakes up from sleep after I switched to the OS drivers, those proprietary drivers are really bad, god I shouldn’t have switched to them at all.
- john89 ( @john89@lemmy.ca ) 1•5 months ago
Has nothing to do with it.
- Eugenia ( @eugenia@lemmy.ml ) English4•5 months ago
The replies here are good. Different rendering engines. Also, try another font. Like Roboto, or Inter, by Google.
- MonkderDritte ( @MonkderDritte@feddit.de ) 4•5 months ago
Look into ArchWiki “font configuration” > hinting, you seem to have issues.
- bizdelnick ( @bizdelnick@lemmy.ml ) 2•5 months ago
This is a correct recommendation, however in Debian-based distros you don’t need to edit configuration files manually. Just pick some of preinstalled configs. They are installed in
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail
and symlinked to/etc/fonts/conf.d
.
- MoLoPoLY ( @MoLoPoLY@discuss.tchncs.de ) 4•5 months ago
I have a similar issue but in my case between KDE and Gnome. KDE is much cleaner by display the fonts as Gnome. But I prefer using Gnome, because of the cluttered interface of most KDE applications.
I just tried a live Lubunto install, and it too looks blurry running the OS GPU drivers
- geoma ( @geoma@lemmy.ml ) 3•5 months ago
Are your video card and monitor working properly on linux? You getting the resolution you should?
Very old Toshiba laptop with a very old Nvidia gpu GT 525M running proprietary drivers connected to a 1080p monitor and yes it is running at 1080p
- toastal ( @toastal@lemmy.ml ) 1•5 months ago
If your next machine has a higher pixel density than 1080p, the need for aggressive hinting diminishes as pixels are smaller & needing to extrapolate subpixels accurately is less important (and less taxing to compute). That wouldn’t help you now, but in the future you may want to consider something like 2.8k which isn’t overkill like 4k on a small laptop display at arm’s length.
Thanks for the valuable information! I’m still not sure if I’m gonna get a laptop or build a desktop as an upgrade for the future but one thing is sure is that 1440p is the absolute minimum for me, no way in hell I’m getting anything lower than that
- geoma ( @geoma@lemmy.ml ) 1•5 months ago
I don’t know. This sounds like some strange thing, never happened to me and I deal a lot with old computers… Maybe try another distro?
I have always wanted to try opensuse so we will see
- geoma ( @geoma@lemmy.ml ) 1•5 months ago
Fedora atomic versions are great IMHO. Or mx linux or debian if you are looking for something more normal
TBH I’m just following https://distrochooser.de/ #1 recommendation, I want something that works best for me, not willing to spend any more time in testing new things that might be good, if it is good then I will let the community try them 1st, I will be the last to jump in
- geoma ( @geoma@lemmy.ml ) 1•5 months ago
Endeavour is is also cool if you update frequently through CLI
- supangle ( @supangle@lemmy.wtf ) 2•5 months ago
i use mint on my nvidia gpu with latest drivers and i have no problem
Maybe because of the old Nvidia gpu, hmm will try the OS drivers hope it helps,
Update: didn’t help but it did fix an issue with the flatpak version of telegram (openGL) and wine is no longer complaining about something that’s broken with the proprietary driver + the boot and shutdown animation now actually runs (which is Linux mint logo)
- words_number ( @words_number@programming.dev ) 1•5 months ago
For a fair comparison you should at least use the same font and font size. Did you try that? It will still look different on windows, maybe better, but I think you can get pretty close. I use the “inter” font on debian xfce and it looks very clean (the font is probably in your repos as well).
the font is probably in your repos as well
Unfortunately it’s not:(
- words_number ( @words_number@programming.dev ) 2•5 months ago
Then just download it e.g. from github: https://github.com/rsms/inter/releases
- suoko ( @Suoko@feddit.it ) 1•5 months ago
Infinality used to fix that aspect but the project died. Did you try deepin Linux distro? If I remember correctly it could handle fonts better than all other distros
- john89 ( @john89@lemmy.ca ) 1•5 months ago
Nope.
The cold hard truth :'(
- john89 ( @john89@lemmy.ca ) 2•5 months ago
Sorry.
It’s okay this is life after all.