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It's distribution dependent.

It's been a solved problem for years, but some of the better rendering methods in FreeType are/were patent encumbered, and so it comes down to what each distro's lawyers are comfortable with.

Gnome's out of the box font choices don't help either. Cantarell renders terribly on anything but high DPI displays.



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