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.

  • alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 hours ago

    GNOME Files (Nautilus) doesn’t have a setting that lets you switch between file type icons and app icons. That’s one thing that makes GNOME different from Windows. There might be a workaround, though, you could try a different file manager, but I’m not aware of one that specificall yimplements the kind of app-based icons you get with Windows

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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    4 hours ago

    More likely than not you’re confusing modifier keys.

    On the Mac, the zoom is [Command] + [+].

    In Linux it’s [Control] + [+]

    This is pretty much true across the board. It’s sometimes non-obvious because wrappers like UTM try to “help”.

    The alternative is to ssh into the VM and continue to use the MacOS shortcuts you’re used to.

    Source: I’ve been using Linux on MacOS guests for a very long time.

    • alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 hours ago

      i’m just gonna go with kali. so yeah that’s the final update, i’m going with kali because it has a GUI (I like the GUI+terminal combo) and i wanna do shit with cybersec.

      • gi1242@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        i think ur talking about the Linux console. don’t bother customizing that. install kde or whatever gui u use. then open the terminal (e. g. konsole or gnome-terminal). ur zoom shortcuts should work out of the box now.

        too bad u switched already. u were one command away from having the gui

  • anon5621@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    I guess u are talking about tty if so then

    setfont ter-132b

    Other fonts located here so u can choose and use name of to apply with setfont

    ls /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/
    • alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 hours ago

      i checked. turns out my arch doesn’t have any font support so i just deleted the whole thing. gonna try fedora or debian

      • anon5621@lemmy.ml
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        4 hours ago

        Up to u,but if u wanna ready to arch based disto go with cachyos it’s almost vanilla arch with performance tweaks

    • alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 hours ago

      ok well i installed arch just fine, no issues with getting everything up and running. i just noticed that the “make text bigger” shortcut that works for my mac terminal didn’t work with arch, so i did some googling and still couldn’t find anything

      right now i think i’m just gonna go with fedora, unless you or someone else can convince me otherwise. i like the UI better and, ngl, i’m not like a whiz with software so i don’t know how to customize like every little thing. so i think fedora is a better fit for me because it looks a LOT nicer and it comes with some shit preinstalled

      • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show
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        4 hours ago

        i just noticed that the “make text bigger” shortcut that works for my mac terminal didn’t work with arch

        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 setfont command.