I tried different font settings in the font settings and it didn't improve much (font hinting, anti aliasing, custom DPI settings, different font size)
The font is the default one which is Ubuntu Regular with font size set to 10
Sub pixel order is set properly to RGB Linux Mint xfce
Even when running windows in a virtual machine, the font rendering in it is miles ahead of what I got on my Linux setup!!!
Can we see some screenshots? It's hard to work just with someone's idea of "better". Not to mention that font rendering can be tweaked on both Windows and Linux and we don't know what settings you've changed so far. Oh and I hope you're comparing the same font otherwise there isn't much point you the comparison.
I tried to upload a screenshot when creating this post, but it seems there is an issue with the instance I'm on, so I just tried uploading it to Imgur instead so here you go, and oh scaling is set to 1x (there is only 1x which is the default and 2x which I tried today, but it made all the UI elements and text too big and yep I'm not using the same fonts for comparison and I don't think it is as simple to install and use the font used by win 10 and/or 11, and honestly I do not know if using Microsoft font going to fix this issue or not
screenshot these all are the default settings except maybe for Hinting
The biggest problem that I see on this screenshot is that it is a compressed JPEG.
I don't know, however this is impossible to understand what's wrong with your fonts.
The replies here are good. Different rendering engines. Also, try another font. Like Roboto, or Inter, by Google.
Inter is great, I've been using it (TTF hinted) as my UI font for years and it renders very sharply. I'm on Debian and KDE Plasma
It's not made by Google though, it's this guy, Rasmus Andersson
Are your video card and monitor working properly on linux? You getting the resolution you should?
Very old Toshiba laptop with a very old Nvidia gpu GT 525M running proprietary drivers connected to a 1080p monitor and yes it is running at 1080p
If your next machine has a higher pixel density than 1080p, the need for aggressive hinting diminishes as pixels are smaller & needing to extrapolate subpixels accurately is less important (and less taxing to compute). That wouldn’t help you now, but in the future you may want to consider something like 2.8k which isn’t overkill like 4k on a small laptop display at arm’s length.
Thanks for the valuable information! I'm still not sure if I'm gonna get a laptop or build a desktop as an upgrade for the future but one thing is sure is that 1440p is the absolute minimum for me, no way in hell I'm getting anything lower than that
I don't know. This sounds like some strange thing, never happened to me and I deal a lot with old computers... Maybe try another distro?
Fedora atomic versions are great IMHO. Or mx linux or debian if you are looking for something more normal
TBH I'm just following https://distrochooser.de/ #1 recommendation, I want something that works best for me, not willing to spend any more time in testing new things that might be good, if it is good then I will let the community try them 1st, I will be the last to jump in
I have a similar issue but in my case between KDE and Gnome. KDE is much cleaner by display the fonts as Gnome. But I prefer using Gnome, because of the cluttered interface of most KDE applications.
I just tried a live Lubunto install, and it too looks blurry running the OS GPU drivers
i use mint on my nvidia gpu with latest drivers and i have no problem
Maybe because of the old Nvidia gpu, hmm will try the OS drivers hope it helps,
Update: didn't help but it did fix an issue with the flatpak version of telegram (openGL) and wine is no longer complaining about something that's broken with the proprietary driver + the boot and shutdown animation now actually runs (which is Linux mint logo)
Infinality used to fix that aspect but the project died. Did you try deepin Linux distro? If I remember correctly it could handle fonts better than all other distros
