Is Linux better than Windows for large fonts?

[Jeff Vian]

On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 10:53 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I like to set the font sizes on my displays to extra-large, so I can 
> read them easily. On W2K, I set the font size to 150% - but this garbles 
> many applications (text gets clipped, etc). I've never had a similar 
> problem on Fedora.
> 
> Is there a particular reason why large font handling seems to be better 
> in linux?
> 

software is written for the user not the vendor.

> Just curious...
> 
> 
> - Mike
>