text terminals on Ubuntu 22

I can't believe I'm asking for help on this but does anyone know how to enable the text terminals in Ubuntu 22? The ones you access with Ctrl+Alt+F?. I tried all the help online but no luck.

And on this note, which distribution would you guys recommend? I really want to change after seeing this stupid update by Ubuntu, something that works well with i7 CPU and nVidia(ugh!) would be great!

2024-12-09 · 1 year ago

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time to switch to Debian...

time to switch Fedora :D

You may try setting the option NAutoVTs=6 (or however many you desire) in /etc/systemd/logind.conf.

If that does not launch them after reboot, you should be able to enable/start the getty@ttyN.service systemd targets, with N being the f-key number you want.

I think Xubuntu still has them. Gnome desktop sucks.

For a distro, I have no idea. I've tried a lot of them and there's always something broken or stupid that they do. Personally I've used arch for about 10 years at this point, but idk if I would recommend it. Rolling release model is kinda stupid.

apart from arch, i would strongly recommend alpine. it is free of systemd (in contrast with arch), of course has VTs (configure in inittab) and it has a packaging system that you the user have control of.

it works well as desktop with standard software; but expect problems with complex frameworks, mostly due to the musl ecosystem. it is blazing fast.