maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

thank you to the dozens of people who responded to my plea for a text editor on Linux that has better font rendering than gnome with telling me i need to just use vim or emacs instead you truly are a shining example of your tvtropes page

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

the people who tell me i need to build my own DE from packages from the ground up are telling me to use my "distro"'s default text editor

i might just have to use notepad++ under wine oh well

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

if i want a gui text editor that doesn't use gtk for the sole reason that gnome has not learned in 20 years how to render fonts in a half competent way and you tell me to use vim or emacs i'll make you use windows 95 for a week to learn to use a mouse

i am asking this because i want a text editor in windowmanager that does not have the broken gtk font rendering

is there a linux text editor that doesn't use gtk

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

i'm the embodiment of the proof that linux has not been ready for desktop usage since 2004

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

we're getting somewhere

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