Comment Is This Really Necessary? (Score 1) 513
I've posted elsewhere in this thread but I felt that this was necessary to get off my chest.
Are all the boot messages even necessary? Perhaps this should be what the debate is about, hm? I see no reason to remind me what drives I have installed and the fact that a keyboard's been detected. I like silence. I'd like to know when an error has occurred, sure.
I view boot time as a time of the OS doing its thing to get ready to rock and roll, not inundate the user with ridiculous messages that they probably don't care about (this, along with a huge filesystem with thousands of files that Joe Blow doesn't understand or need, are two of my biggest theories as to why the general populous doesn't accept Linux and are my personal grievances with the said OS). The Linux boot roll annoys me for this reason:
Pentium with F0 0F bug, workaround enabled.
Calibrating delay loop...210915124.125974 BogoMips.
Enabling swap space.
I'm sure there's somebody in the world that gives a wild shit about this, but I don't. I want a usable operating system, not one that vomits up every single thing it does so hackers can catch errors in their code. The boot messages should be easily turnoffable (I don't put much effort into learning Linux, so if there is a way, please don't correct me and tell me how much of an idiot I am. I have IRC for that).
A black screen would be nice, then my login screen for my choice of OS. I actually applaud Windows for this, even though I hate Microsoft products as well. XP makes the best steps for this, in my opinion.
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Are all the boot messages even necessary? Perhaps this should be what the debate is about, hm? I see no reason to remind me what drives I have installed and the fact that a keyboard's been detected. I like silence. I'd like to know when an error has occurred, sure.
I view boot time as a time of the OS doing its thing to get ready to rock and roll, not inundate the user with ridiculous messages that they probably don't care about (this, along with a huge filesystem with thousands of files that Joe Blow doesn't understand or need, are two of my biggest theories as to why the general populous doesn't accept Linux and are my personal grievances with the said OS). The Linux boot roll annoys me for this reason:
Pentium with F0 0F bug, workaround enabled.
Calibrating delay loop...210915124.125974 BogoMips.
Enabling swap space.
I'm sure there's somebody in the world that gives a wild shit about this, but I don't. I want a usable operating system, not one that vomits up every single thing it does so hackers can catch errors in their code. The boot messages should be easily turnoffable (I don't put much effort into learning Linux, so if there is a way, please don't correct me and tell me how much of an idiot I am. I have IRC for that).
A black screen would be nice, then my login screen for my choice of OS. I actually applaud Windows for this, even though I hate Microsoft products as well. XP makes the best steps for this, in my opinion.
This is flamebait. I know. I want foes. Sign up at your local recruiting office.
