Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Denys Vlasenko]

On 03/11/2013 10:30 PM, Björn Persson wrote:
> Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> On Mon, 11.03.13 21:20, Björn Persson (bjorn at rombobjörn.se) wrote:
>>
>>> Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>> It use to only be displayed if there was more than one OS configured
>>>> or if the CTRL was held down. Having to press a particular key means
>>>> you have to get it at the second or two where grub isn't displayed.
>>>> The Ctrl option is quite nice as you can do it before the BIOS
>>>> disappears.
>>>
>>> But how are users supposed to discover it?
>>
>> By hooking this up to keys people would natrually try, such as shift,
>> space, enter, escape, or whatever windows does for their boot menu stuff.
> 
> I would probably pound frantically on the keyboard trying to hit the
> right key during some unknown, short interval. If there were no
> interval at all and the right solution were to be holding a key at the
> right moment, then I'd probably have about a 50% chance of not pressing
> any key at that moment.
> 
> And after I happened to press the right key at the right moment I still
> wouldn't know which of the keys I pressed was the right one, so I'd
> have to pound frantically the next time too.
> 
> After a few iterations I'd also be cursing the idiots who designed such
> an unfriendly user interface just because they didn't want any text on
> the screen.

+1