i promise i'm not trying to be difficult i just think that linux will never be as good as windows was in 1995 until it can learn to render aliased full hinted variable width typefaces without it looking like uneven pixel salad
next time someone tells me to try Linux instead of windows i'll just shove this thread in their face
but maybe Wayland will fix everything once it finally releases in 20 years
not that it'll run on any current, let alone older, machines we currently own
you're lucky if the same hardware heavily supported 10 years ago by xorg and mesa even boots today
but hey mesa-amber huh
face it we all gave Linux a shot in the early 2000s because we saw that video of compiz doing the 3d workspace switching thing and thought that was the pinnacle of desktop UI and later lied to ourselves it was because free as in beer or speech software was somehow better than pirating windows xp and now the stronghold of gnome is making you use a worse version of mac os you have to manually fix every update or let go of whatever customisations have even survived this far
2024 linux still to this day has no equivalent to Windows 3.11 Microsoft paint or Microsoft notepad and honestly that's very sad for an operating system that is still trying to break into the desktop market started by apple in 1983 with the Lisa
i am asking this because i want a text editor in windowmanager that does not have the broken gtk font rendering
@krishean best i can tell is gtk font rendering and gtk font rendering alone forces autohinting even if the font already carries manual hinting because gnome maintainers are allergic to bitmap fonts and fonts that are already made for low dpi. non gtk font renderers render my fonts-with-already-hinting without issues.
linux is a wonderful server software for running blades and racks and microservices
it's 100% an intentional and cruel joke as a desktop system
ok #linux nerds convince me i can give up windows fixing this one 100% dealbreaker for me. why is ms sans serif rendering like shit in scite and not in windowmaker. don't monkey paw me and make it render like shit in both
it's loading the right font, but the hinting is totally fucked up. i have no idea why
year of the linux desktop everybody
@zwol it doesn't. it turns out this is by fault of me naively trying to use pcf and bdf fonts which the enlightened gnome pango developers know better than me than to let me do that
i cannot find anything on google for "all bitmap fonts show the same font that isn't the bitmap font i'm selecting" so if any #linux people who would like to convince me that it's any better than windows could shed some light into this feel fre to replyguy me
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