Why doesn't Windows have good font rendering? Linux is open source so can't Microsoft just steal the code?

That's terrible

God, Microsoft fonts are fucking hideous. Is this what Hell is like?

because it's running on bloatware written 30 years ago

Which one of those is supposed to be good?

They could but they have principles!

Linux is a kernel and also a general name (through common usage, even if technically inaccurate) for the family of operating systems using said kernel, typically excluding Android.

People can't be bothered to adjust their cleartype settings

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>Can't they just steal the code?
Are you actually retarded? Read one of these licenses once In a while instead of absorbing "GPL is like cancer!!1!" propaganda. Also,
>code

>adjusting
>not disabling

The bottom one LOOKS better.

The top one (Windows) is EASIER TO READ.

This, but unironically.
I have to work on macs from time to time and reading shit on them is more stressful compared to Windows.
However, I'm perfectly fine with how my font looks like. I'm not a retard who fucking cares about the fucking font.

your W looks like this

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I fucking hate */Linux font rendering, it's the one thing I dislike most of all... It doesn't look better, it's not easier to read, it's fuzzy as shit even with infinality enabled. Damn Microsoft and their fucking subpixel patents, of all things.

No, your W looks like this

>"clear"type
>makes things blurry

But the NT kernel renders fonts tho

Jesus fuck this looks terrible.

Top is easier on the eyes. Guessing it is windows. That patent should expire this year.

this

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>(((Microsoft)))
>fox jump ed
No, MacOS and Linux are definitely better.

This is why there will never be a year of the Linux desktop. You guys just like shit things.

based non-aliased arial 10 pt

Windows makes chinese fonts nearly unreadable theyre so hideously rendered. I get a headache with them on windows. Cleartype cant handle them while osx and linux is fine

Not a big deal for most but its there

Some distros call themselves Linux, then Linux can be the whole OS because that is how its used. Only autists call it GNU/Linux.

and that's a good thing!

we need a patent revision for literally all patents
thinks like this should be unpatentable

>why doesn't windows have "x"?
Answer to all these questions is incompetence and laziness.

Literally no other reason to use it anyway

the top one is unironically more readable

r8

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holy shit you're right

>it's fuzzy as shit even with infinality
github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate/blob/c0e90598b4a50a92432268ccc442c2e067a54924/fontconfig_patches/free/60-latin-free.conf#L22

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>MacOS
>better
No need to go full retard, son

github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate/issues/183#issuecomment-292841043
see for infinality

Hinting is disgusting and should be illegal.

>infinality
2010 called, they want their shitty hacks back.

my nigga

bump

click the links stupid

makeuseof.com/tag/make-windows-fonts-look-like-mac-fonts/

I miss my Lumia.

You must be blind to think windows font rendering is good.

Who uses fonts other than the 10 extremely common ones?

Subpixel AA is less blurry than full pixel AA

Windows font rendering prefers crisp text over faithfulness to the typeface. Mac/freetype(linux) prefer typeface faithfulness over crispness, thus their text looks more artistic but is harder to read. Cleartype was microsofts way to get closer to typeface accuracy while retaining sharpness, however that introduced color artifacts.

There is no good solution except doubling pixel density and not having to compromise one way or the other. It's annoying that 99% of people shitposting in these typeface threads don't understand these basic facts and unironically think *their* pile of shit is better than the *other* pile of shit.

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The top one is a lot sharper. The bottom one is probably more accurate to the typographer's intent or whatever, but it makes my eyes feel unfocused.

Google tells me the bottom one is SUSE. I'm using macOS at the moment and the text is sharper than that, but still not as good as Windows.

the way to adjust cleartype is fucking shit, you no idea what the end result will be like

XP

there you go

sans-serif

bitmap-like-font

If one pile of shit is sharp and easily readable, and the other pile of shit is a blurry mess, how can there not be an objective winner there? Who the fuck cares about the font creator's opinion on how many pixels the letter j should descend if it comes at the cost of readability?

Linux Font rendering is all edgy. I prefer Windows smoothness.

A well designed font improves legibility, so windows fonts are crisper but are losing readability by having strange proportions/spacing sometimes.
Overall i still prefer windows fonts due to preferring crispness over the blurry-but-accurate look, but it's naive to think there is an objective winner here. The winner is to get a 4k 24" monitor and run 200% scaling, then it doesn't matter.

It's hard to justify buying a HiDPI desktop monitor though. If I'm paying for 4K, I can either go for 24" scaled and have the same amount of space I had at 1080p but sharper... or I can go 48" LoDPI and have four times the space.

Yeah it sucks, which is why i'm putting up with shitty font rendering currently. When 24"-27" 4K frameless monitors drop below $200 i'll grab 2 or 3 though. We're getting closer!

this but the oposite

>loonix font is a blurry mess

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picrelated

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nice one user, you really showed him!

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Also Linux font rendering only looks good on rendered images.

If you try reading it from a live screen is looks bad.

Are you fucking serious? You're either a paid Microshit shill or you've never actually used Linux which means anything you say in invalid.

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you probably couldn't see the title of the page

fucking Android 8 looks better than that my man

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Glad I haven't used Windows in a while, that IS hideous

i'm sure android 8 fonts looks just as good at desktop resolutions

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Of course you are not. Why would you be concerned with fonts when you are jerking off to loli porn in your moms basement?

Exactly, my loli doujins are handwritten and don't use any font rendering library, so who cares

windows 10 looks better.

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1920*1080 lmao

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Those color artifacts are only visible if you are looking at it with a display it wasn't rendered for (or not at the native resolution)