Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Chris Murphy]

On Mar 12, 2013, at 12:31 PM, Brian Wheeler <bdwheele at indiana.edu> wrote:

> Fedora isn't windows.  Its not OSX.  It should never be those things and I'm grateful for it.
> 
> The boot menu doesn't hurt anything.  It has benefits.
> 
> What are the benefits of removing the boot menu?
> * Saving upwards of 5 seconds per day!  My god, think of the productivity boost!
> * Its prettier.  Wow.  Neat.  Huh.
> 
> Why is this even being considered?

For the same reason the GRUB debug mode isn't enabled by default, for the same reason the debug kernel isn't used after alpha. The efficacy for most users most use cases is greater.

The line of what is considered debugging properly should be moved as improvements are made. I'm sure there were a bunch of sorry whiners missing verbose text boot scrolling by their screen by default, in favor of graphical boot.

This also benefits RHEL, which arguably shouldn't have nearly as many kernel induced problems upon release, and if it does it's likely a VM or bare meta and boy wouldn't it be nice if it did fallback on its own?


Chris Murphy