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I moved to Arch Linux from Windows XP because I realized all of this old Windows nostalgia/aesthetics fad is just shallow and stupid, but I can't make my system look good. To be more specific, I'm having trouble with fonts. On windows, the fonts were always sharp. After some research I realized this may have something to do with bitmap fonts being used instead of outline fonts, but I'm not sure. On every distro I've used the fonts were always fuzzy and ugly. The font pack I installed was gnu-free-fonts, but I'm not sure this has something to do with anything. Would installing a different package and removing this one sort things out? Is there some configuration somewhere I have to tweak? How do you make your linux machine look nice and sharp?
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>I moved to Arch Linux from Windows XP because I realized all of this old Windows nostalgia/aesthetics fad is just shallow and stupid

Seriously? You moved to Windows XP just for the aesthetics? I have like almost the same functionality and theme and I didn't need to move to an ancient operating system for it.
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>On every distro I've used the fonts were always fuzzy and ugly
What you're looking for is "font hinting", which is where the metrics of each character are slightly distorted so that they're more aligned with the pixel grid, making them appear sharper

L00nix generally does a crappy job of it, but there are usually options where you can set how weak/strong the font hinting is

>all of this old Windows nostalgia/aesthetics fad is just shallow and stupid
Nobody in their right mind is suggesting that anyone should daily drive old versions of Windows (although you technically can) - it should just be for nostalgia, entertainment, or compatibility purposes sweat2
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No.129914 +
>>129900
why would anyone use google chrome instead of chromium or better yet, ungoogled-chromium
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No.129915 +
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WHY WOULD ANYONE USE A FAGGOT BROWSER LIKE CHROMIUM OR ___FOX. YOU KNOW WHAT TEH BEST BROWSER IS?!?!?! PALE MOON! PALE MOON! PALE MOON!
IT IS UNRIVALED IN UNBLOATNESS AND COMPATIBILITY(except for new web3.0 because thats is for FAGGGGGGGGGG0TZ)
PALEMOON FTW! LOSERS WILL CALL IT "fail moon" BUT THEY PROBABLY DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT A INTERNET IS.

PAAAAAAAALLLE MOOOOOOOOON!!!!!!!!!11!!11!
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>>129914
It's actually just hacked LibreWolf with a theme, I stopped using that shit years ago
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No.129929 +
>>129915
It has no good adblockers.
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No.129944 +
palemoon is old and shit, its missing vital improvement updates so some sites u visit will just shit the bed for no reason (some pale moon user says that happens for nashi) just use firefox, i never used llbrewolf.
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>>129900
Seconded. I'm on Windows 10.
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♫ Pale moon, you saw me browsing alone
Without an ad I could block
Without a vid that would load ♪
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No.129953 +
>>129952
WINRAR!!!
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>some pale moon user says that happens for nashi
UH OH! H8R ALERT! H8R ALERT!
I BET THIS USER IS ATE UP WITH NORTH KOREAN SPYWAREZ INSTALLED BY HIS BROWSER. ANY PALE MOON USAR WOULD KNOW THAT ADS DON'T AFFECT US FOR THE SCRIPTS OF THE AD WON'T RUN WITH OUR 1337 TECH. FOR YOUR INFORMATION LOSAR, NASHI RUNS A BLOAT SOFTWARE DESIGNED FOR YOUR GOVERMENT SPYWARE SERCH ENGINEZ.
YOU'RE JUST JEALOOUS U HAV 2 LIVE IN A WERLD OF PHP AND JS WHILE I LIVE IN A PARADISE OF CGI AND PERL!!1!!ONE!!!111!11!一！１百十一!!!!!11!
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font

Maybe try a different font.
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>>129900
Not *just* because of the aesthetics. Windows XP obviously has less bloat and spyware than Windows 7 and up.
>>129901
But I want them without anti-aliasing at all. On windows XP/7 none of the fonts were anti-aliased.
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No.129985 +
>But I want them without anti-aliasing at all. On windows XP/7 none of the fonts were anti-aliased.
Both XP and 7 had font anti-aliasing, but on XP it's off by default

Linux usually has the ability to disable font anti-aliasing somewhere, but most fonts are not designed with that in mind, and some programs override the system setting (this is true of Windows as well)

Read this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_configuration
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If anyone is interested in how I found my way out of this predicament. I copied the fonts from my windows XP installation into /usr/share/fonts and used this configuration: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_configuration/Examples/No_anti-aliasing
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>>129900
>>129947
also I hope you know you guys are posers
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No.130297 +
>>129900
windowblinds?
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No.130689 +
sudo pacman -S noto-fonts && sudo pacman -S noto-fonts-cjk && sudo pacman -S noto-fonts-emoji && sudo pacman -S noto-fonts-extra nyaoo2

Depending on the tools you have you can also just download them from browser!
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