He wants a readable text console at boot. Also 80x25 has a lot of history, and some things work better at that size. I don't know if you've ever tried using a

He wants a readable text console at boot. Also 80x25 has a lot of history, and some things work better at that size. I don't know if you've ever tried using a non-graphical display on linux recently, but if you have say a 4k display, you get unreadably tiny text. It also breaks a lot of text-mode stuff. If you've ever tried to FIX this on your system, you'll find a bunch of roadblocks. You can't just use an easily available font for the console. Console fonts have to be created or converted into a non-standard .pfs or .pfsu format. most linux distributions have at most a 16x32 font available if you take the time to do the override properly. Even that font is pretty small on 4k. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_console https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_console