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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/11/2013 05:04 PM, Lennart
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, 11.03.13 21:45, Nicolas Mailhot (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net">nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net</a>) wrote:
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Le Lun 11 mars 2013 21:16, Lennart Poettering a écrit :
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, 11.03.13 13:08, Chris Murphy (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lists@colorremedies.com">lists@colorremedies.com</a>) wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mar 11, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Björn Persson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bjorn@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se"><bjorn@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se></a>
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<pre wrap="">Or nothing at all displayed unless the user happens to know to press
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<pre wrap="">some key at the
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<pre wrap="">right moment?
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A multiboot system needs at least a message to inform the user how to
get to the boot manager (the GRUB menu). A Fedora only system probably
should entirely suppress the menu or notice how to get to it.
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Somebody who is capable of installing multiple operating systems on one
machine should easily be savvy enough to remember that pressing
shift/esc/space/f2/whatever gets him the boot menu.
If you installed multiple OSes and noticed that the boot menu is gone,
wouldn't pressing these keys be your natural reaction anyway?
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My natural reaction would be to curse whoever is making me waste minutes
in press-random-keys-to-see-if-you-can-unlock-boot games to "win" a few
seconds. I'm pretty sure any poll would find the same result.
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My natural reaction to the current grub2 menu that steals my boot is
that I start to hate Fedora and Linux for that we waste our time in ugly
boot menus and bikeshedding about them.
Lennart
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How many times do you boot a day? If it is more than once or twice I
would posit that is not<br>
the normal user. So what is 2 extra seconds?<br>
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