Very Computer

But hey, if you would rather have security issues that could lead to your
personal data being stolen, don't let me stop you.

Quote:> These fscking font rendering issues in LGX are about to give me a damned
> migrane.  Linux is not bad but come one fix the gui!

I can't sit in front of a Wincomp for more than 30 minutes without my eyes
tearing up.  The fonts on Windows are absolutely HORRID!

I'm not kidding, they are really bad.  Even before I knew about LGX that
was one of my major complaints about Windows.  Nothing helped, I bought
anti-glare screen protectors, I installed custom fonts, I adjusted
contrast and brightness and still they would bother me to the point that
my eyes would twitch after too long in front of the screen without a
break.

Anti-aliasing just aggravated the problem.  Now, instead of being stark
and jagged, they were all muddy looking and *y at the edges!

Man, give me a nice LGX system with Xft and some freetype fonts with
anti-aliasing and RGB hinting enabled and I can go straight for HOURS
without my eyes bugging me!  The fonts on my system look like they were
printed out of a book.

Sorry, maybe that was an issue a couple years ago, but modern versions of
LGX have this thing locked!

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bureaucrat, n:
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Not a reasonable tradeoff. I'll just adjust sizes and types and just figure
it's the (small) price I have to pay.

--Rod

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Author of "Linux for Non-Geeks--Clear-eyed Answers for Practical Consumers"
and "Boring Stories from Uncle Rod." Both are available at
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To reply by e-mail, take the extra "o" out of my e-mail address. It's to
confuse spambots, of course.

Perhaps you should consult an opthalmologist...

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Friendly Fire isn't

Quote:>>> These fscking font rendering issues in LGX are about to give me a
>>> damned migrane.  Linux is not bad but come one fix the gui!

>>Youre kidding right?

>>I can't sit in front of a Wincomp for more than 30 minutes without my
>>eyes tearing up.  The fonts on Windows are absolutely HORRID!

> Now you are just being silly.

Granted, some fonts are better than others on either platform, but
overall, the rendering is superior IMHO on LGX now.

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I never deny, I never contradict.  I sometimes forget.
                -- Benjamin Disraeli, British PM, on dealing with the
                   Royal Family

-S

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Man is a bundle of habits. Windows is a bundle of bad habits.

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Friendly Fire isn't

It'll possiblt even make it dual-boot eX-Pee and eX-Pee, one of which
will crash all of the time. That, of course, will be a different kind
of crash than normally happens, and it will be up to the end user to
determine which is which. Most likely, if the they both boot at all,
the user won't be able to tell which one they don't need, will go to
microsoft.public.windowsxp.* for assistance and end up with a
completely unbootable system that a repair shop will charge to make
work again.

After a reinstall the user may find the old install is more stable than
the new one, will try to get rid of the new one and end up taking out
files important to both of them. As a plus, the registry shouldn't
suffer too much damage, and should at least make it practically all the
way through before doing a screen dump about missing files.

All of this is becasue Windoze is easy-peasy and is "ready for the
desktop"!

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* Except if the replacement OS is an upgrade** to what came on the
machine in the first place.

** What the maker calls an upgrade, not what is really an upgrade. So,
eX-Pee to 98 would be a violation even though it would really be a major
upgrade.

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Aren't you glad you use linux? Don't you wish everybody did?

Quote:>> ** What the maker calls an upgrade, not what is really an upgrade. So,
>> eX-Pee to 98 would be a violation even though it would really be a
>> major upgrade.

> History:  Bought a Dell Optiplex from Boeing Surplus.  Tried to install
> mandrake, and suse.  Would not install.  Are Dell's really 'standard' or
> do they have a 'deal'.  Beware.

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Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.