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Personally, my use of fonts are more utilitarian. In that context, the fonts shipped with a typical Linux distribution are perfectly usable and far from shitty. While I would expect someone who has more of an eye for design to have more discerning tastes, I would be surprised if many people shared an opinion as extreme as yours or mine. (I suspect that they would be more inclined to notice the quality of font rendering or missing favorite fonts than anything else.)


> far from shitty

In a world where Arial Illegible is the standard, I don't think we can complain too much.

FOSS doesn't as a whole pay much attention to visual aspects, one reason so much of the software just doesn't look nice. E.g., GIMP.




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