fedup: it's full of stars

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 01/21/2013 01:26 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
> On 21 January 2013 15:32, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>> Wolfgang S. Rupprecht:
>>>> I assume that there is a human-factors study that indicates that
>>>> non-technical users don't like to be reminded of how complicated things
>>>> really are under the hood.  At least that is why I thought such cover-up
>>>> screens exist.
>> I assumed that it's just stupidly copying Windows, in a monkey-see,
>> monkey-do fashion.  As seems to be the current trend of programmers
>> wanting a free version of Windows, rather than an alternative OS.
>>
> And I assumed it's a user-expectations thing. People expect a OS to
> look 'professional', if it starts up with rows of text it can look
> unfriendly and re-enforce the 'geeks-only' image. Though really I'm
> guessing and it may not be the reason.
>
Would this be considered a "preference"?.....since the OS actually 
works...does it matter if there's a splash screen or text scrolling up 
through the screen upon bootup?....I've never really paid attention to 
the splash screens that much....I much prefer to keep it all "quiet" and 
just have a black screen, some people prefer to "see" what's going on 
while the machine is booting up....others want a pretty animation.....I 
guess that's all moot hmmm?


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