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!!!
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
On KDE plasma the fractional scaling also plays a role in text rendering. Then there’s also the “Legacy Application Scaling” for X11 apps on the Wayland session.
This is almost always a compositor issue, and unless something is terribly wrong, only affects certain applications that don’t properly use the composite rendering method. First, find out which compositor you’re in (probably Wayland if a modern distro), then find out which apps seem blurry. Last step: force those apps to use your specific compositor (start searching for runtime options for the app).
Should fix it.
I’m running linux mint xfce which after checking it seems that it uses xfwm 4.18.0 and everything is blury, there isn’t a single thing that isn’t blury well except for the windows 10 vm lol
Sounds like a fractional scaling issue. Keep the scaling at 100% to avoid those kinds of issues
Did you turn off any fancy UI tweaks like scaling (especially fractional)? Have you confirmed if your session has a compositor running?
Also, try something like this
Depending on your overall OS and sessions setup, your distro install may not be tweaked properly for Xfce, which still doesn’t have Wayland support last I checked. So unless you made sure to clear out all the other global configs that could impact the GUI session, you’ll probably have some issues unless you switch to an Xfce catered distro.
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)
0024:err:winediag:is_broken_driver Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
I wonder what someone has to do to have worse looking font rendering on Linux. I find the font rendering on Windows worse in every regard and inconsistent (size). On Linux I just set hinting to slight and anti-aliasing to greyscale and all my fonts look nice. Same font with same size on Windows (VSCode is the only program I use on both OS) looks slightly blurred; only the fact that my work display has a higher pixels density makes it ok for me.
For a fair comparison you should at least use the same font and font size. Did you try that? It will still look different on windows, maybe better, but I think you can get pretty close. I use the “inter” font on debian xfce and it looks very clean (the font is probably in your repos as well).
Then just download it e.g. from github: https://github.com/rsms/inter/releases
