Boot screen: Quiet or not?

[John Richard Moser]

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I brought this up when this first happened, now I'll bring it up again
and see what people think after a few releases.

The boot screen in Ubuntu has used a model where it displays an image
and a progress bar for a while now.  Knocking off "quiet" in the boot
line changes this behavior to include a running log of what's going on
(loading drivers, starting ssh, bringing up GDM...).  The reason I was
given for the default "quiet" mode was that the system seemed "More
polished" this way; although I've seen someone argue that specifically
having Grub flash a cryptic message for 1/2 a second about something
"startles and scares the user," and only reference the rest of the boot
sequence by proxy (I guess words in general scare users).

Personally I think it's "more polished" to see what the system is doing.
 To be specific, when my system boots it's doing exactly one thing:
BOOTING.  It takes it 30 seconds or more to do only that, which is
inexcusable.  Now, with "quiet" knocked off my system is doing a number
of things and it seems reasonable that it might take it a little time.
An unpolished system will either give zero feedback, or will feed me
lines of cryptic status codes (loading <long_path>/driver.ko into
<memory address> etc for each driver?).

What's the overall experience of the user community been on this?  It's
obviously a trivial detail but it was important enough for the specific
change in the first place right?

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