[lug] Fedora 27!

Tue Jan 2 19:42:00 MST 2018

Mint MATE (that is, Gnome 2). It has the plain ole "appearance" icon in the
plain ole "control panel". In the appearance settings, there's a plain ole
"font" tab where you can select type, style and size of the font for
applications, document, desktop, window title and fixed width (e.g.
terminal)
You can also pick the rendering style with monochrome (useless unless you
have a monochrome display), best shape, best contrast or subpixel smoothing

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 3:40 PM, <stimits at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I actually set aside a couple of partitions for testing new versions of
> Linux (and my favorite has been Fedora for a long time, though I've used
> the KDE spin instead of Gnome), and I'm testing some software
> compatibility. I was happy to see Fedora 27 is out since I had some issues
> with 26 (it was a fairly good release, but there were a couple of
> problems...mostly KDE related).
>
> So I've installed Fedora 27 *KDE spin*, and also Fedora 27 *Cinnamon*,
> which I've never used before. It seems more responsive than KDE, and fairly
> clean looking. I was pretty much sold on keeping it until I found out how
> hard it was to change desktop fonts (it seems one must edit css
> stylesheets).
>
> I'm kind of "bleh" with Ubuntu, though I find some of the lightweight
> versions (LXDE comes to mind...it works quite well even on atom laptops
> with tiny resources) more intriguing. The Unity desktop itself is a case of
> "I try to not touch that stuff unless it is necessary".
>
> So although I'm only asking about opinions, let me ask from a new point of
> view not normally asked: What newer distributions (implying a recent
> kernel) have people here tried where you thought you could set up fonts and
> readability without great trouble? Which distributions did you find
> complete, yet still configurable for visual customization (especially if
> your eyes are not so great)?
>
> Thanks!
>
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