Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Steve Clark]

On 03/12/2013 02:23 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 12.03.2013 19:03, schrieb Chris Murphy:
>>> i learned it many years ago by facing the boot-menu
>>
>> Well you wouldn't learn it today because of how grub2-mkconfig and grubby interact.
> ah and because things got worser you would make it more worse
>
>
>> Your first kernel update depends on grubby to write the entry in grub.cfg,
>> and uses a nomenclature completely different than grub2-mkconfig.
> thanks god for that, so i have the same behavior as
> all the years before on any machine
>
>> And then, most new linux users with Windows or OS X experience,
>> have no idea what a kernel even is.
> so they can learn or use Windows/OSX
>
>> If they do, most don't know what the kernel does that system services don't
> so they can learn or use Windows/OSX
>
>> Next it is never the case that Windows or OS X or mobile devices have
>> multiple kernel versions. There is only one kernel at one time on such systems
> BUT WE HAVE AND IT IS A BLESS
>
>> You'd have to learn this
> and you learn by FACING things
>
>> Even if I were to see a coherent list of kernels in a list by their date,
>> it's unlikely I as a new user would have made the leap to try another option
> with this argumentation you can follow the current attitude
> to make linux-systems to the same blackboxes as other
> operating systems
>
> but the better option for us all would be if people with
> this attitude switch to these operating systems instead
> damage slowly what we know as UNIX-LIKE system
>
>
Well said Reindl !l



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