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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Windows victims: go ahead and pretend you don't want or need
 the greatest PC software available
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 01:50:12 -0000 (UTC)
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Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote at 12:09 this Saturday (GMT):
> On Sat, 11 May 2024 07:53:45 +0000, RonB wrote:
>> The main thing that drives me nuts about Thunderbird is that, when I
>> pick a specific font (and choose that as my default), it reverts back to
>> the generic font whenever I sneeze, or move my cursor wrong or whatever.
>> I think Microsoft Word used to do that too. What part of "this is my
>> default font" don't they understand? It's part of the Microsoft Word
>> disease, where the retarded program is trying to think for you.
>
> Admittedly, I don't recall Thunderbird ever respecting my choice of font. 


Weirdly, I remember it being DE-dependent. openbox used the default,
while XFCE uses my bitmap font.
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