Trade-offs

Posted Oct 10, 2025 17:53 UTC (Fri) by WolfWings (subscriber, #56790)
In reply to: Trade-offs by nim-nim
Parent article: Last-minute /boot boost for Fedora 43

The 16x32 font supports the exact same character encodings as all the other built-in Linux framebuffer console fonts, so encoding concerns are moot.

If the framebuffer console works (which on anything remotely recent that has working UEFI it will) then the font will display properly.

They literally added it to deal with the 'retina macbook' issue of a 15" 4K screen becoming common on laptops, so the console was readable again.

Just a lot of distro's decided "It's not VGA! YEET!" and it's taken a while to get them to leave it enabled like they should have from the start.