Ubuntu Boot Up Logo

[Maxim]

hmm it would be cool if we can make a graphic of a windows closing and a 
door opening :) with something like why use a window if you can use the 
front door.... :P just an idea.. to hide the tech crap :) 

On 7/16/05, charlieg <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Dr W Hunter Blair Wrote:
> > I am finding it hard to imagine what is wrong with seeing *technical
> 
> > crap* on boot up. It can be useful. You can always walk away and
> > switch
> 
> > on the coffee pot, or contemplate a different life without the
> 
> > irritations of computing :D,
> 
> >
> 
> > Hunter
> 
> I am finding it hard to imagine why some people don't realise that
> "technical crap" is actually really intimidating. If my mum were to
> see Linux booting, she'd panic and think something was wrong, probably
> not just the first time she witnesses it either.
> 
> 
> 
> All these little 'technical' elements, even if they're pragmatically
> irrelevant, add up to make users think "this is not for me". Keeping
> it smart and tidy makes them feel they are using something smart and
> tidy, even if it's just hiding the technical mumbo jumbo.
> 
> 
> 
> The technical intimidation of unadulterated Linux is not a hard concept
> to grasp.
> 
> 
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