Unlike on Windows, the window Luke has open is not the “Fonts folder” but a program called GNOME Font Viewer. There is no single equivalent of the “Fonts folder” (C:\Windows\Fonts) since fontconfig uses a search path based on XDG data directories (on FHS-based distros /usr/share/fonts would be one; ~/.local/share/fonts would be another, specific to the current user).
But GNOME Font Viewer does actually support installing fonts, only one by one and user needs to open them, they cannot just drag them onto the app. The following issues are relevant:
Unlike on Windows, the window Luke has open is not the “Fonts folder” but a program called GNOME Font Viewer. There is no single equivalent of the “Fonts folder” (
C:\Windows\Fonts) since fontconfig uses a search path based on XDG data directories (on FHS-based distros/usr/share/fontswould be one;~/.local/share/fontswould be another, specific to the current user).But GNOME Font Viewer does actually support installing fonts, only one by one and user needs to open them, they cannot just drag them onto the app. The following issues are relevant: