Will there be a boot splash

[R S Gill]

Attitudes like those you are expressing here are what is keeping Linux 
from desktop dominaton.

You have an entrenched enemy. Learn from it. Most people don't give a 
damn about geek tools or CLI.

All they want is a beautiful, graphic environment to get their work 
done. Ubuntu is a step in the right direction. Almost everything just works.

About the bootsplash, Windows has it. So no matter how much you hate 
Windows, as I'm sure a lot of us do, a bootsplash is not optional for 
Ubuntu, it is mandatory. Rember, first impressions count! You have to 
totally wow the software-challenged people with something that will fire 
them up. And I'm pretty sure that some "cryptic" message flying by on 
their screens is not going to fire them up in a any meaningful way.

Also having a bootsplash just makes the distro just look more professional.

If you like troubleshooting things, that is great but you know how to 
gain access to the startup messages. As for insultng the intelligence of 
users/customers, if they really have a need for startup messages, they 
will know how to disable the bootsplash.

We need to strive for the lowest common denominator here people!

Flame away,

Gill

Brian Barr wrote:

>ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
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>> Those of us who *can* troubleshoot
>>are perfectly capable of getting to the information; everyone else is
>>just intimidated by the endless rows of cryptic text.
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>Intimidated?  How about adding a nice text message as it starts up saying:  
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>"And now we will start the boot process...you can probably ignore most of this."
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>Once you see that start up phase once or twice, it becomes "normal".  I would think part of this "humanity" thing is to not treat your customers like fools.  Raise your expectations, and people generally meet them.
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