I’m a macbro who’s been using the terminal for eight years. I downloaded an Archlinux VM for UTM (macOS Tahoe) and I like it, I just wish the text was bigger. I know you don’t get Arch because of its snazzy UI, you do it so you can do…Idk, cool 1337 h4x0r shit? I seriously don’t know, you guys, I’ve only been an Arch user for like three days.
That’s because in MacOS it’s a terminal emulator, a GUI application with a CLI inside.
In Arch, if you didn’t install a desktop environment, the terminal is the raw TTY, not an emulator, so it does not have reszing/zoom options.
But as @anon5621@lemmy.ml mentioned, you can set the font of the TTY to a bigger font using the
setfontcommand.checking out setfont right now. i’m in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts and the fonts are all there, but when i try setfont it says it doesn’t work for this particulal kernel. tried a few fonts so far
Maybe the wiki has some useful information: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_console#Fonts
i’m just going with kali for now, but thanks! :)
Peak shitposting
thanks! it’s actually based on a true story. when i got into kali and hacker shit three years ago (i was recovering from a traumatic brain injury and was quite literally insane) i couldn’t figure out how to make the text on arch bigger so i went to linuxquestions.org
i did some research and ran some greps and i think i found the problem. i’m using a serial terminal, not a framebuffer console, in other words there’s no custom font support at all. hmmmm. kind weird. well i just freed up a shit ton of space on my laptop so i’ll just download another arch and see if that one doesn’t suck