Rendering Fonts, Not!
by heatherlka from LinuxQuestions.org on (#53MAT)
I am posting here as I am not sure where else to post. I confess that I am a Font Junkie! And the one thing that has bothered me from day one with Linux is the inability to render what I consider to be the most common font families.
I think where it bothers me the most is online, in browsers, how does a site that is one font say on Windows or Mac, not show the same way/font on seemingly ANY Linux distro? And is there any way to fix this and why isn't this an issue that has been addressed years ago?
And seriously, why do a lot of distros come preinstalled with like 20 different font families that are basically the same with I am guessing the exception of which East Asian font they also render? And if these families are truly different in design and it doesn't show in Linux, what is the point?
I think where it bothers me the most is online, in browsers, how does a site that is one font say on Windows or Mac, not show the same way/font on seemingly ANY Linux distro? And is there any way to fix this and why isn't this an issue that has been addressed years ago?
And seriously, why do a lot of distros come preinstalled with like 20 different font families that are basically the same with I am guessing the exception of which East Asian font they also render? And if these families are truly different in design and it doesn't show in Linux, what is the point?