Hi I am looking for the package of better looking fonts that is called ms-core-fonts or is part of Ubuntu restricted extras.

Can someone please advise me the name of the package?

I cant find either one in Synaptic

Oh wait, I think I found it ttf-mscorefonts-installer

I installed it and rebooted but fonts still look like crap compared to Ubuntu or Windows.

Any advice?

Im not being a pain in the but either, the fonts look really, really, really bad.

I used to just copy the fonts I wanted from a windows install and put them in ~/.fonts .

but it may just be anti-aliasing that you are missing. you can try adding the following to ~/.Xresources
I don't think the antialiasing functions in lxappearance actually work even though they show enabled.

i think this is mostly a matter of dpi settings-- they get funny (and so do my fonts) when i spend enough time resizing my screen (and switching monitors, like brads been doing.)

hinting is the most complicated thing that can cause this-- which is why i think there should be a community JUST (primarily at least) for tweaking font settings in gnu/linux (and other free software distros like bsd.) because that used to be its own hobby... its"mostly" taken care of in debian and debian-based distros now. though i figure within a year, people will be dragging in pieces of systemd just to have truetype fonts. i mean, you dont want grub to look different than your web browser, do you? (do you?)

Thanks guys,

Now that I think back I believe that I had copied the windows fonts over on Ubuntu. I will do do the anti-aliasing first