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Meadows wrote:I actually think Ubuntu uses terrible fonts by default, they're so wide and bulky that they make my eyes bleed.
titan wrote:Some IDEs that I've tried that you might like are Bluefish and NetBeans.
titan wrote:Maybe it's all in my head as I've seen an article that kind of digs into the font rendering issues of Linux.
Krogoth wrote:Care to enlightenment me?
grantmeaname wrote:I heard VMware Player now runs OpenGL things natively (on the GPU)... you may want to look into that.
Nav wrote:I don't know much (read:nothing) about programming and all that jazz but just wanted to say welcome to the world of linux!
Casting off those Microsoft shackles is not easy, I can tell you that:).
just brew it! wrote:Speaking of fonts, I recommend installing the optional "ttf-liberation" package. This gives you a set of fonts with metrics identical to the standard Windows Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New fonts.
bitvector wrote:I'm sure ttf-liberation is as good, but if you want the real actual Microsoft fonts (plus some not in ttf-liberation), this is another option.
Madman wrote:
Does anyone know if there are any hardcore IDE alternatives for Linux?
bthylafh wrote:You could try the Anjuta IDE. I think that's the "native" one for GNOME, which is the desktop environment Ubuntu uses.
just brew it! wrote:bthylafh wrote:You could try the Anjuta IDE. I think that's the "native" one for GNOME, which is the desktop environment Ubuntu uses.
Nit pick: GNOME is just the one that is installed by default. KDE and Xfce are supported as well; you can install them directly from the Ubuntu repositories, or use one of the alternate installation CDs.
just brew it! wrote:bitvector wrote:I'm sure ttf-liberation is as good, but if you want the real actual Microsoft fonts (plus some not in ttf-liberation), this is another option.
The main difference is that the fixed-width font in ttf-liberation is sans-serif, making it look more like a fixed-width Arial than a typewriter font like Courier. I actually prefer its cleaner appearance.
just brew it! wrote:I just dropped an old M-Audio Revolution into my Ubuntu box so that I can compare its sound quality with the onboard. Booted up, and it was already there in the Sound Preferences applet, with no manual intervention from me.
Sweet indeed!