The Ubuntu installation isn't locale-aware, and ships with a crapton of fonts that the vast majority of users will never need.
One user may need Nepalese fonts, but they won't need Hebrew fonts; and vice-versa.
Having so many fonts creates more than a disk space problem - it clutters the font selection in every application. That makes selecting the font you really want, a mess:
The Ubuntu installation isn't locale-aware, and ships with a crapton of fonts that the vast majority of users will never need.
One user may need Nepalese fonts, but they won't need Hebrew fonts; and vice-versa.
Having so many fonts creates more than a disk space problem - it clutters the font selection in every application. That makes selecting the font you really want, a mess: