Right before the end of 2006, Paul Thurrott completed his 8-part review of Windows Vista. His final conclusion: "Vista is a better operating system than the competition, for reasons that are both technical and practical. But for the hundreds of millions of people who will move to Vista in the coming years, all that will really matter is that it's a major improvement over XP. And it most certainly is that as well."
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Member since:2005-07-06
Well first of all, if I were to show you comparisons, one may look bad on your monitor. You HAVE to tweak font settings based on your monitor for them to look optimal.
But here's a comparison, which may prove to be useless to you:
http://weakmind.org/upload/files/old/osnews_ct.png
http://weakmind.org/upload/files/old/osnews_ft.png
On my LCD, ClearType (ct) looks much more crisp and smoother, whereas FreeType's (ft) edges still look kind of rough, and certain characters have bad font hinting.
That was using the optimal sub-pixel rendering settings for both.
Member since:2005-10-31
I beg to differ. I find XP's default fonts too jagged and submitted to poor antialias, which it makes them sport a weird blur.
On the other hand, linux fonts are very crisp and have a very smooth finishing. They are a pleasure to look at.
So please take a look at the calendar. We aren't in 1996 anymore. You have to get up to speed on your pet linux FUD because it is affecting your trolling...
Member since:2005-07-06
Sorry kid, no FUD here.
See http://osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=16880&comment_id=199145
Member since:2005-07-02
Clear Type is easily better than any of the font rendering Linux or Mac has. Much more crisp and easier to read fonts.
I disagree. As soon as you have medium-to-high resolution (i.e. 1280x1024 and up), I find both libfreetype on Linux and the OSX font renderers to produce much better results than Clear Type (at least on WinXP...I can't talk for Vista, but unless they've overhauled the engine it should pretty much be the same thing).
To have nice-looking fonts with libfreetype with KDE, make sure you turn AA on but disable hinting. Much nicer than Clear Type.
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2005-07-07
Member since:2006-06-21
Clear Type is easily better than any of the font rendering Linux or Mac has. Much more crisp and easier to read fonts.
Please. Are you serious? The first (and only) time I ever experienced subpixel bleeding was on Windows XP. Never happened on Mac or Linux.
Plus, the configuration options on ClearType (even with the powertool tweaker) are a joke, and the default choices in font rendering, AA, hinting etc. suck. Compare that with the Gnome/KDE options. I won't even mention editing your own fontconfig configuration, which allows you to fully control font rendering down to customizing all the above for certain font families or sizes.
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2005-07-06
Clear Type is easily better than any of the font rendering Linux or Mac has. Much more crisp and easier to read fonts.