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Prefer Linux-specific fonts over Arial

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Merged Administrator requested to merge github/fork/kusma/reorder-arial into main Jul 21, 2021
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Created by: kusma

Some Linux distributions (like Debian) have fontconfig aliases for Arial that picks specific fonts. But such generic aliases might be less desirable than the known-good Linux specific fonts.

This fixes a problem on my setup where Liberation Sans is aliased as Arial, even when Noto Sans is available. Liberation Sans doesn't support a weight of 500, so we end up rendering headers at the normal weight of 400, which makes them stand out less. Reordering the Arial fallback makes us instead pick Noto Sans over Lieration Sans, which does support a weight of 500, and makes headers stand out again.

While we're at it, fixup the reboot documentation to match, and change the comment about Helvetica Neue; that's not a "Basic web-fallback" font, it's the UI font on older iOS and macOS versions.

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Source branch: github/fork/kusma/reorder-arial