Re: Suggest installing more fonts?

[Gregory Heytings]

> > > You mean, a Debian user cannot simply download font files and install 
> > > them?  Are Debian users forced to use "apt get" etc.?  I'm surprised.
> >
> > As a Debian user, I do think that I can "download font files and 
> > install them" and there's a good chance I can even do that "simply", 
> > but I have never needed to do that and would have to search for info 
> > about how to do it and I wouldn't be satisfied with the result because 
> > now those fonts wouldn't be kept up-to-date by the usual mechanisms.
> >
> > So, while I'm not "forced" to use `apt`, I would first and foremost 
> > want to use `apt` and only resort to another solution if there's no 
> > other solution.
>
> So Debian users are even less "free" in this regard than MS-Windows 
> users?  That's sad, isn't it?

Of course Debian users can simply download font files and install them: it 
suffices to put them in the /usr/share/fonts/truetype or 
/usr/share/fonts/opentype directory .  Fonts can also be added with KDE 
Font Management or GNOME Font Manager.  As Stefan said, the drawback of 
this solution (be it with GNU/Linux, Windows or macOS) is that "those 
fonts aren't kept up-to-date by the usual mechanisms".