Public bug reported:
Very serious UX problem affecting lot (most) of the users, Ubuntu 24.10:
On my FullHD notebook, Ubuntu 24.10, Gnome, setting scaling to anything
other then 100% has really bad effect on font quality and crispness of
the text. Previously, I had scaling set to 125% and fonts looked hazy
and wrong. First, I thought it is some font-rendering issue, but then I
realized that when I turn off scaling (set to 100%) and enlarge fonts
instead in Gnome-tweaks, fonts are about the same size as with scaling,
but good looking and crisp! However, scaling is not universally bad for
fonts in all applications, in Gnome Control Center (Settings) or System
monitor, fonts are crisp, even with scaling. But non-Gnome-system apps I
use (Edge/Chromium, Android Studio, Netbeans, Visual Studio Code) all
have bad looking fonts with any scaling on, fractional or not.
Especially annoying in web browsers. If you render same web page in
Windows and Ubuntu, text looks about same quality at 100% (no scaling),
but at any other scaling Windows keeps its text rendering quality, while
Ubuntu don't.
Users experiencing this font-rendering degradation probably have no idea
something is wrong, they just see hazy, low-quality fonts on the screen.
Problem is less visible on high-dpi screens, and more annoying on FullHD
screens or less-dpi TVs.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Setting scaling makes font rendering bad
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