Fonts in Latex look ugly

Hi,
i am writing my bachelorthesis in latex. At home i compile it with latex running archlinux and at work i compile my thesis with latex running windows (using MikTex and TeXnicCenter).
I compile my thesis with pdflatex and the pdf compiled on windows has much nicer fonts then the linux one.
I have tried different settings but the windows version looks nicer no matter what is do. Has anyone made similar experiences?
Or am I just using the wrong setting to get nice fonts in linux?
Here are the packages I use:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{graphicx}

thanks for all the hints. I checked the log file and latex uses the <fontname>.pfb fonts.
I view the pdf with Okular (Kde 4.2.2) and the fonts look different depending on how much I zoom in. In normal view (without zoom) the fonts look really thin (looks like certain characters like "o" have holes in them), but when I zoom in the fonts start looking better. I switched on subpixel hinting in the KDE systemsettings so I think that should work.
I will check the pdf generated by linux with the acrobat reader on windows and see if it looks better.

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