In the era of 4k screens, modern Linux distros have great font rendering and I won't take Windows as an example of "good rendering", unless font distortion because of strong hinting is a metric of quality. It is just atrocious to my eyes.
It's pretty easy to be honest: have a high-enough resolution screen, enable greyscale mode (instead of subpixel), turn off hinting. Usually only the latter has to be changed in the settings, as many Linux users still use 1080p screen that benefit from font hinting.
It's 2025, and the font rendering I can achieve on Linux is best for my purposes: clarity, readability, especially of small fonts. So yes, on a web page, or in a text editor, I do prefer small distortions due to hinting over fuzzy "exact" shapes any day. Text is here to be read, not marveled at.
If I need to do typographic work, I can zoom in enough for this to not matter, or just print a proof on a laser printer; no screen is going to have 1200dpi any time soon anyway.
Windows 10 takes the second place (I have no Win 11 machines around to compare), and macOS is still only usable on retina screens.
In the era of 4k screens, modern Linux distros have great font rendering and I won't take Windows as an example of "good rendering", unless font distortion because of strong hinting is a metric of quality. It is just atrocious to my eyes.
It's pretty easy to be honest: have a high-enough resolution screen, enable greyscale mode (instead of subpixel), turn off hinting. Usually only the latter has to be changed in the settings, as many Linux users still use 1080p screen that benefit from font hinting.