Either you are microsoft fanboy or a freakishly, horrendously, amazingly paranoid linux one. Don't worry mate. ARM had their hidden plans.
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  Don't you know who initiated the "Vista is ME2" propaganda? ;-)
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P.S. - Hello Slashdot! Finally you guys got me converted (secretly wishing for +5 funny. erm... insightful maybe? :D )

I think it will. At least with the upcoming multicore cortex SOCs and with an optimized linux distro.

I understand your gripes. I have been going in and out of the linux world because of this very reason. I absolutely hated and shunned fonts on linux distros until I met Ubuntu. I think they implement freetype2 by default in their applications and with subpixel smoothing enabled (disabled by others because of certain patent violations. As you can expect the patents belong to some rotten fruity company).

I tried to get it working recently on OpenSUSE and finally achieved font nirvana on it too. So I don't think that fonts will cause any more problems to you.