This separate the setup of fonts from the setting of fonts
The role setup the fonts to be used

The other dependant roles configure which font from there to be used

This is more complicated but cleaner separation between each role
responsibilities

Gnome installs avahi-daemon, and keeps reinstalling it

Remove the ubuntu specific tasks and install the packages with
recommendations (as we are removing the avahi-daemon afterwords to make
the network manager stable and idempotent)

The recommended debian/ubuntu install of gnome pulls avahi-daemon and
that could potentially conflicts with NetworkManager.

Therefore resorting to more restrictive approach for installing gnome

Instead of using ubuntu version which isn't great, I prefer using the
minimal gnome