Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Simo Sorce]

On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 09:34 -0400, John.Florian at dart.biz wrote:
> > From: Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> 
> > 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. 
> 
> Or perhaps those "whiners" consider themselves responsible employees
> by being diligent in understanding what "normal and correct" looks
> like so that they can recognize when something is going south and
> maybe doing something to avert a crisis before it occurs. 

And maybe they are wrong, we'll never know ...

> I swear that every time I read about how boot (or other) is so
> unaesthetic I really have to wonder if people are actually using their
> system as a tool to do work, or if they're merely playing with them as
> a novelty.  Not that there's anything wrong such play, but please stop
> trying polish the appearance at the expense of functionality for those
> who see them only as tool. 
> 
So let me allow to make a parallel.

You go working every day wearing work clothes like these [1] because you
see them only as a tool and you need to get work done ?
An obviously caring about appearance as well as functionality or as a
compromise is wrong, right ?

Simo.

[1]
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PWiGSr3ymuw/TpnXBp-z0VI/AAAAAAAAD34/mMosookklVY/s1600/workclothes-01.jpg

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York