[mc] a little digression to why console mode

[mi]

Alan,

You might have overlooked the important detail in my original post. I have been asking about 'console' or tty mode (where you get with Ctrl+Alt+Fn{1-6}, not within the X windows.

When after major dist upgrade my nvidia GPU driver stopped working i tried to find out the reason and other things were broken too, without having an X. 

This situation is not new to me - i encounter this kind of sh* with nvidia cards for 10+ years now. But the cheap replicas are simply the most economic, and i used to buy them again and again ...

So i start getting things fixed on console. Like, recompiling different nvidia/tesla versions, trying to find why initramfs of newer kernel versions (of the right arch ofc) - originals from the Debian repo ! - are broken with modules of the various nvidia flavors i tried .... and many more things. 
And it spares a lot of time to be able to just work on the 6 parallel tty that we have in console mode.

I think all graphical terminals offer ways to increase font size.  For terminal use tililx which is gtk3 and has comfortable configuration options in a preferences menu; and different profiles. Before i used roxterm, comparable. And ofc there are several ways to increase fonts even in good old xterm :D 

However, if you are in console and no X and you can't read *anything* except you poke your nose directly against the monitor glass and your nose follows the words one by one ... then you are screwed !

So i wanted to solve this problem not only for now, but find out ways to deal with the situation also in the future, and on any kind of (Unix) machine. 

I hope you understand my kind of rare problem a little better now.