Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Kalvin Lee]

I too like the current bootloader. Admittedly, in the interest of 
"average" users (like me) the described idea doesn't sound too bad. I 
for one don't pay much attention to which kernel I'm booting; I just 
select the most recent one.

On the other hand, sacrificing functionality for prettiness is rarely a 
good thing in my book. I suggest we instead give people /choices/ as 
opposed to forcing defaults - what's not broken shouldn't be changed at 
this point, and if people want to modify their bootloaders, the least we 
can do is make it a little easy for them. Some prepackaged solutions 
with well-written documentation should be enough to pacify most people, 
I think?

On 03/11/2013 02:13 PM, Lynn Dixon wrote:
> I actually like the current bootloader, and plymouth loading screen. 
>  Having a bland, grey interface that only shows me high level 
> information such as "Fedora, Windows 8" etc is not my idea of 
> progress.  It also give me instant view into which kernel version I am 
> booting.  I admit I sometimes get a kernel update without noticing it 
> until I boot and see it in the grub menu.
>
> I just dont see the point of changing a functional bootloader 
> interface to be plain and gray.  Nor do I see the point of getting rid 
> of the Fedora logo / plymouth filling in, in favor of bland "spiny thing".
>
> I am in agreement with the previous replier: My first reaction would 
> be to curse the person whom changed a functional bootloader into a 
> whack-a-mole attempt to find out what the heck is going on.
>
>
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