On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 3:38 PM Jan Kratochvil
<jan.kratochvil(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 21:21:37 +0200, Chris Adams wrote:
> I'm not sure why you think end-users can't use a free OS.
First steps of end-users is to install Chrome, Spotify and VirtualBox.
So there is left no advantage of a Free OS.
They are popular but by no means universal. I don't install any of
those three things.
I agree the idea of bash-completion is nice. But it is so severly
incomplete
it is more a burden than help. Unfortunately I no longer remember all the bugs
I faced before I started removing it years ago but a simple one is:
$ wget -O somepackage.rpm https://...
$ dnf install som<tab>
<wait for a few minutes>
$ dnf install sombok-
You're right this is bad - i mistype things all the time and yet hit
tab and it just stalls out and is faster to command C three times and
start over.
> Unless you are doing kernel development, why do you care what the kernel
> messages say? On my systems, they go by too fast to read anyway.
When it locks up (during updating firmware on my Athlon machine) I see just
a black screen. When I reboot without rhgb/quiet the problem is not
reproducible as it happens only rarely. There are many reasons why kernels
sometimes fail to boot, why to give up on troubleshooting?
I think we need more complete bug reports about these kinds of
problems, and fix them, rather than default to showing startup scroll.
I don't have this problem very often and I use rawhide kernels. And
where I run stable kernels I can't even remember the last time I
needed to see the startup scroll for troubleshooting. It's easy to get
it unhidden though - hit Esc.
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Chris Murphy