Better, mac-like font display in Ubuntu

I try to use open-source software as much as possible in my work as a developer and web designer: Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus, Openoffice, and of course Drupal. My main operating system has been Ubuntu for a long time, and it's whay I use on my trusty desktop PC.

On the side, almost as a guilty pleasure, I have a mac laptop: the linux experience (or windows, for that matter) is just not yet good enough to beat the neatness of a nice macintosh notebook (silence, sleep, portability). Plus, these days with tools like virtualbox, I can have my ubuntu fix on the move as well and it works just great.

One area which I've always found a bit lacking in Linux is the way fonts are rendered.

Even after the well known installation of the msttcorefonts package:

apt-get install msttcorefonts

But, worry no more! Today I've found the perfect configuration for font rendering (at least for me).

You can try it out, and see for yourself if it makes it better.

All you have to do is to download the txt file, rename it to .fonts.conf (note the leading ".") and put it in your home folder. Then log out and in again and behold!

Download: 

fonts.conf_.txt