I know next to nothing about fonts and font rendering.
Redpill me /g/. What is font rendering exactly? Why should I care?
I got a fresh Ubuntu installation, is there some settings to know regarding font rendering? Using XFCE if that matters.
it's typography for computers et al.
Macintosh wins in that regard
Calibri's so lame
>>61506643
Recent versions of Freetype fucked up no-anti-aliasing mode. You can fix it by putting:
FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35
in /etc/environment
If you do use anti-aliasing this will make things look worse.
Ubuntu has the best font rendering out of all distros. I never have to change font rendering options on Ubuntu. Idk if XFCE renders fonts differently compared to Unity. I've never used XFCE because I have more than 256 MB of RAM.
>>61507552
You pay for that with your freedom, however
>>61507663
You have the option in the installer to install only Libre software, and if you really care then you can disable the nonfree and contrib repos.
>>61507793
>opt-out instead of opt-in
>>61507823
It's an entire step so it's hard to miss.
Removing the repos is a just to prevent yourself from accidentally installing proprietary software.