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
    0•4 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
      6•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.