Fontconfig in Linux (and maybe in everything that uses it) lets you do some cool things as disabling fonts, rather than uninstall them. I found this trick somew

Fontconfig in Linux (and maybe in everything that uses it) lets you do some cool things as disabling fonts, rather than uninstall them. I found this trick somewhere several years ago (and shared it the other day on reddit) but am still using against the Noto font family that is required by some programs, so they won't show up nor clog the font selection dialogs. Just putting something like <?xml version='1.0'?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'> <selectfont> <rejectfont> <glob>/usr/share/fonts/noto/*</glob> </rejectfont> </selectfont> in any new file under /etc/fonts/conf.d/ will do the trick.