Hello,

I have used linux for years, and many variations. By far the best in my opinion is suse. However, the fonts even on 11.2 seem to be so inferior to ubuntu 9.10 and Fedora. Being that I look at a screen all day in IT, I use ubuntu because it is much clearer. Has anybody else experienced this? Did you find a solution?

On both distributions I am using the same hardware, drivers, and video card.

Fonts are mostly a matter of personal preference and any person recommending
a font to satisfy your personal tastes is pretty much a futile exercise.

It might help if you define what you find 'inferior' about the fonts.
Is it size, style, or something else ?

In either KDE or Gnome you can customize your personal font preferences on the
desktop by selecting the window deskstop configuration menu and finding the
font selection menu under window appearance.

Some non-KDE or non-Gnome applications may have their own font selection
mechanism, YMMV.

For a larger resolution monitor, you may need to install the 100-dpi fonts.

Thank you for your reply. The fonts are hard to read and have no uniformity to them when I load Suse. They actually miss pixels and look very bad. Fedora, Ubuntu, and Centos have stellar looking fonts. I replicated the settings from them, and they still turn out bad and hard to read in 11.2. The Nvidia driver is loaded on all the distributions, yet for some reason the fonts look different in Suse. I love using Suse since it is one of the better distributions for simple integration with AD Windows Domains, and managing the Windows Servers and ESX servers. It also tends to be very up to date. If I could find out how to get them more readable, hands down I would choose suse.

This sounds very strange.
I wasn't aware that there was any major difference between the supplied fonts (usually from xorg) between any of the distributions.

My personal preference is to reduce the font size, as I use a large screen with lots of pixels.
Sometimes I am blind and need to make the pixel size larger, with more contrast.

Perhaps your problem deals with a particular application ?
Can you post a screen capture which displays the pixel drop out?

In KDE Have your tried:

Menu>Personnel Settings>Look & Feel>Fonts.

Then set, "Use anti-aliasing: Enabled" & "Force fonts DPI: 120 DPI or 96 DPI". You can also press the Configure button and put an "X" in "Use sub-pixel Rendering w/RGB set" and "Hinting style: Medium".

Making these settings and then restarting KDE seemed to make all of the difference for me in openSUSE 11.2 and I do use the nVidia graphics binary driver. I use the 120 DPI setting, but that makes fonts larger, which I need. The 96 DPI setting may be more to your liking.

Thank You,