The Simple Things in Life

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John Moser schreef op 19-07-2016 23:48:

> What Ubuntu needs most is a simple, non-buried toggle option to show
> the boot process--including displaying the bootloader, displaying the
> kernel load messages, and listing which services are loading and
> already-loaded during the graphical boot.  Ubuntu's best current
> feature is the Recovery boot mode, aside from not having a setting to
> make this the standard boot mode sans the recovery prompt.  "Blindside
> the user with a confusing and meaningless boot process and terror at a
> slight lag in boot time because the system may be broken" is not a
> good policy for boot times longer than 1 second.

It's really quite obvious isn't it. But you don't need to see 
everything.

See currently it is either all or nothing and that is how many people 
seem to think.

Either you see a splash screen with no information at all (save perhaps 
an encryption message or a leaked-through kernel command line bug or 
error during the boot process) or you see all of the systemd services 
starting and perhaps much more information as well.

Why not divide the boot process in 5 or 6 stages and then show the user 
when each stage has been completed? SystemD already has stages (targets) 
but it was not really meant for humans.

I mean how obvious is it that "one state" (such as the desktop being 
loaded) is not informative enough, while "1000 states" may be much too 
informative?

When do people learn to find the middle road?