why is gurb-menu hidden as default?

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 05:25:08PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
>> and why are there so many noobs with questions like "after a kernel
>> update my machine does no longer boot" if this decision would
>> be smart?
>
> The solution to "My kernel update doesn't boot" should be "Automatically
> detect that that happened, give the user that information and fall back
> to the old kernel", not "Always show the user a menu that they almost
> always don't care about". Solve the actual problem.

Agreed.  Having a simple one-shot boot facility would be awesome.  If anyone
has ideas on how to accomplish this, please let me know.  I'd be willing to
look at implementing this.

josh