> Which leaves you with (like) Arial, Times, Courier, Verdana, Georgia, Palatino, and (hahahaha) Comic Sans.
Not Palatino.
And most of those fonts have licenses that are inconvenient at best. The only thing that allows them to be packaged for Linux distributions is Microsoft's '90s-era "Core Fonts for the Web" initiative. This initiative is long discontinued, and so the fonts cannot be downloaded from Microsoft anymore. Only the '90s versions of the fonts are free. Worse yet, the license forbids packaging the fonts in any way other than with their original 32-bit Windows installer, which means that hacks like cabextract are necessary to install them on any other system.
Not Palatino.
And most of those fonts have licenses that are inconvenient at best. The only thing that allows them to be packaged for Linux distributions is Microsoft's '90s-era "Core Fonts for the Web" initiative. This initiative is long discontinued, and so the fonts cannot be downloaded from Microsoft anymore. Only the '90s versions of the fonts are free. Worse yet, the license forbids packaging the fonts in any way other than with their original 32-bit Windows installer, which means that hacks like cabextract are necessary to install them on any other system.