X11 hits! X11 hits! You die…
I just spent an hour or so trying to figure out why Mozilla doesn’t show nice smoothed fonts anymore on some sites, and all the while I kept thinking of Pete’s recent Tea Leaves post on the X11 disaster. He ranted for a while about how pathetic it is that in 2005 X still doesn’t work right and probably never will, and in response he got some random Linux weenie complaining that his problems would just go away if he stopped using the wrong X server and the wrong programs.
Well, okay.
I’m using the shiny new X.org 6.8.1 server with libXft 2.1.6 and Mozilla Firefox 1.0, all tied together with Gnome 2.8.2. I’m as upgraded as I can get, according to /usr/ports, which I have arbitrarily chosen to trust.
So why is it that it still sucks?