Which Distro best resembles Windows XP font rendering without Cleartype

[nb123]

I'm pretty new to Linux, recently installed ubuntu and pclinuxos to my hard disk, but unfortunately although they're both very good looking, I'm looking for a distro that best resembles Windows' font rendering without cleartype.

I understand that there are some issues with the latest release of openoffice regarding font rendering, but I can't seem to get firefox and other applications to render fonts the way windows standard font rendering does, with subpixel hinting but no anti-aliasing. I read that this has to do with the bytecode interpreter being turned off and instead using other hinting algorithms. I also read that openSUSE for example has the bytecode interpreter already on? Is this the right distro for me? Which distro has font rendering technology that best resembles windows xp? Or is it that it's not so much distro dependent, but the way freetype is configured, the way firefox is configured, etc?

[oz]

Which distro has font rendering technology that best resembles windows xp?

That's a pretty hard question to answer because the fonts on any distro can look somewhat different from one machine to the next, depending on the dpi settings, and the actual font configuration settings used. I've been using Linux for 7 years and hated the fonts for the first 3 or 4 years. Now, I like them better than Windows fonts and I never install the MS Core Fonts on my system because they look like crap to me.

I think you just have to experiment with Linux fonts until you get what you want, but maybe some of the others here can give you a better, or clearer answer.

[nb123]

Thanks for your reply, I see where you're coming from, after using ubuntu for only 2 weeks I'm starting to get used to the fonts and actually really like them, but maybe it'll take me a little longer to enjoy them for reading long documents, I still find myself longing for Windows XP's sharp fonts when it comes to this... I'm using a 1280 800 resolution which is my maximum resolution and 96 dpi... maybe I'll experiment with more distros, can't hurt!