[Bug 1808196] Re: Set the default delay to 0

[Will Cooke]

I'm +1 on this change.

Based on what I've seen on the BIOS logo start-up processes, I prefer
the Plymouth version with the Ubuntu logo.

It would be nice to have Plymouth on the screen as quickly as possible.

Likely that we will tweak this in the future depending on how "flickery"
it gets as machines boot faster etc.

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Title:
  Set the default delay to 0

Status in plymouth package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Nowadays we get frequent feedback from desktop user being confused by
  plymouth not showing or showing for a (few) seconds.

  Plymouth has a default timeout of 5 seconds before being displayed,
  the idea was to not display it at all rather than for a few seconds.
  In practice most configurations take 10 seconds or longer to boot and
  it seems it's quite common with current market configurations&Ubuntu
  versions to be in the 7-8 seconds which doesn't play nicely with the 5
  seconds delay and make that "plymouth show for one second result"

  That's something upstream discussed/considered changing in
  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/plymouth/plymouth/issues/64 before
  decided to go directly to the new design of keeping the bios/vendor
  logo on screen and avoiding transition this way. The outcome of the
  discussion was that it would probably make sense to change the default
  to 0 second. I proposed doing that in disco (and perhaps backport that
  to cosmic/bionic then). WDYT?

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