Odp: Re: Other important quirks of GDI

[piotrunio-2004]

I WILL stay on Microsoft Windows because text rendering is still unbeaten. This outweights the possibly many advantages of Linux systems because text is seen so often, and plaintext manipulation is an important tool and should feel like actual plaintext.

The 4×4 oversampling rate also makes the renderer actually feel like the GDI renderer that uses 4×4 oversampling. Some people might find a sense of nostalgic feel in that specific render.

the state of Unix text rendering, is awful.txt
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