new monitor --> bad fonts?

[thufir]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 10:35:36 -0400, John Hupp wrote:

> On 9/28/2014 5:37 PM, thufir wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 19:47:18 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I'm sure you have considered this possibility, but anyway: Lower
>>> resolutions make everything look chunkier than in higher resolutions.
>>> If you are slumming it at 1280x1024 after getting used to something
>>> significantly better, you may just be the victim of your own refined
>>> tastes
>> Maybe it's the opposite!  The old monitor was 15', this one is 17'.  I
>> downgraded the resolution from 1280x1024 to 1064x768.  Maybe I'm just
>> going blind.
>>
>> I dunno, it doesn't look chunkier, it looks smoother and easier to
>> read...
>>
>> -Thufir
>>
>>
>>
> Smoother, larger, perhaps easier to read on those counts -- but less
> sharp -- that's exactly what I would expect in this circumstance.

I'll have to take a look at some other monitors to compare.  I was 
worried it was some arcane linux v. microsoft font thing (which it turns 
out isn't that arcane, and it wasn't anyhow).


-Thufir