Just in case there's anyone out there still suffering from most distros' appalling font rendering, Infinality can make a huge difference. Some (slightly debian-specific) instructions on installing it: http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/better-font-rendering-in-linux-with.html Ubuntu 15.04 was still defaulting to a horrible mix of bitmap and vector fonts for certain applications until I installed Infinality. Font rendering is fractionally slower, but at least it looks like it's on a computer display from this century. cheers, Stewart