Bad typography on Linux

A few weeks ago (when I finally got my room wired up at my new apartment), I booted up my Linux box and started updating Debian. When the dust settled this morning, my font settings had reverted themselves... leaving me with the ugly-beyond-description font families Kochi and Sazanami as the default for Chinese/Japanese characters.

Whose idea was it to have a two-year-old come up with fonts?!! I guess you get what you pay for, since they're open source.

I immediately set out to find something better and decided that, much as I dislike Microsoft typography in general, their Asian fonts are actually pretty decent, so I quickly installed them to save my computer from typographical horror.