Hi,
It seems you’re debating substituting fonts that have little in
common: geometric slab serif vs. transitional serif or rational serif,
hinted vs. unhinted, wide language and phonetic coverage vs. European
language coverage, open source and maintained vs. unmodifiable.
Maybe if you defined criteria, you'd be able to choose with empirical
arguments rather than just throwing likes and don’t-likes.
Have you considered using CSS3 @font-face webfonts? Using webfonts
could mean the same font is used on all platforms with similar outcome
(style, quality, coverage, maintainability).