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I’m a big nerd but I don’t care when the bios hands off to the bootloader or when that hands off to the kernel ow when that hands off to the window manager. I just want those steps to go as quickly as possible without a bunch of manufacturers spamming their logos at me.

The only time I want to see these handoffs and a ugly text dump is when things are broken and I’m debugging it, which should never happen anyway.

Why do we expect such mediocrity out of our software?

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I imagine most would simply like to turn it on and get a prompt right away, like used to happen with a C64.

A ridiculous amount of modern products have gained a boot sequence that should not need one, and didn't used to. Hiding it doesn't fix the real issue.

Things are possible if one puts one's mind to it.

five seconds, year 2008: https://lwn.net/Articles/299483/

two seconds, year 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUUtZjd6UA4&t=17

which should never happen anyway.

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." -Douglas Adams

I think it's a matter of taste. I find seeing boot messages about services starting up etc. more aesthetically pleasing than some logo. It reminds me of people who buy mechanical watches where the gears are visible. Seeing the underlying bits of a complex system exposed can certainly be appealing to some people.

Me too. I would like the logo and the boot messages in a window.

I am exactly the kind of person who buys watches where the gears are visible, and I even use gear-shaped watch faces on my smartwatches, so yeah maybe this whole thread is just me being me.

I do also turn off the splash screen in linux so that I can watch the service startups fly by.

> Why do we expect such mediocrity out of our software?

Experience

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