I've used Netbeans for quite a few years now, and whilst I've tried a few different IDE's, I keep on coming back to Netbeans. One of the reasons I like it is because it's cross-platform. I used it a few years ago on Linux, then on the Macbook and now that I've developing on Linux again, it was one of the first applications I installed.

The installation was easy enough and it all works well. It's a bit memory hungry, but buying more RAM has seen that become almost a non-issue. The main frustration I had with it now was it's appearance. I played with the settings and got it looking better, however I was still annoyed with the appearance of the fonts. I tried different fonts, but none of them looked that good.

Googling for an answer, I found one on stackoverflow.com - another great resource which has solved more of my development queries than possibly any other site. Following one of the answers in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17510099/ugly-fonts-in-java-applications-on-ubuntu I entered:


Restarting Netbeans, it looks a lot better and much more like the other Mint applications.