tomscharbach Is there a reason why you are not following your usual practice and installing to a VM?
I did. Give it a try, and you'll understand. There's a command to resize the window, but I haven't made it work yet. It might need to be used in the terminal, but nothing in the wiki makes that clear. I'm not sure if I'll be able to modify the kernel with VB guest additions, or whether I'd need to do that each time I launch the OS.
At the size of a default VM, it's almost impossible to read the commands that are listed on the background. That Travelmate's screen is rather small for a laptop, but it's much bigger than a VM's initial size, and with more contrast than an enlargment on paper, it's way easier to read. It was just sitting here, not being used for anything else, and running Snal from a USB key ("live") doesn't interfere with the Plasma installation that's on it.
As I mentioned above, it's trivial to swap SSDs in the Travelmate, and I have extras that aren't being used, so I thought I'd swap one of those into the thing and look into the idea of installing Snal on it. Maybe that would give me persistence such that I could use it repeatedly without needing to go through the configuration effort every time I start it up.
And it seemed like a good idea. And I don't care if the Arch community doesn't want to support it. I've never asked them to support any of the other Arch derivitives that I've explored.
