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Excellent font rendering by default - Mint 20.1 Ulyssa

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Hi,

I've just installed the latest Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa (Cinnamon Edition) and noticed that font rendering and overall image sharpness is way better than any other distribution I have tested so far, especially the font rendering which I find very important due to reduced eye-strain levels on prolonged use.

Now I am not an expert so I don't know exactly why Linux Mint 20.1 looks a lot sharper than other distros. Could this be solely because of font libraries or are there other variables in play such as the window manager, compositor, graphics driver, etc?

Here is the output of inxi:

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CPU: Quad Core AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400GE w/ Radeon Vega Graphics (-MCP-) 
speed/min/max: 1257/1400/3300 MHz Kernel: 5.4.0-70-generic x86_64 Up: 50m 
Mem: 2162.0/5933.6 MiB (36.4%) Storage: 931.51 GiB (8.6% used) Procs: 215 
Shell: bash 5.0.17 inxi: 3.0.38
Output of inxi with the -G switch:

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Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Picasso driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: amdgpu,ati 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.35.0 5.4.0-70-generic LLVM 11.0.0) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.6
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Re: Excellent font rendering by default - Mint 20.1 Ulyssa

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Up!

Does anybody know what 'fbdev' and 'modsetting' is?

The inxi -G output says it's unloaded:

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Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Picasso driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: amdgpu,ati 
  --> unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.35.0 5.4.0-70-generic LLVM 11.0.0) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.6
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Re: Excellent font rendering by default - Mint 20.1 Ulyssa

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ScatteredThunder wrote: Wed Apr 07, 2021 10:39 am Up!

Does anybody know what 'fbdev' and 'modsetting' is?
See here:- https://linux.die.net/man/4/fbdev and here:-
https://linux.die.net/man/4/modesetting
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