Boot screen: Quiet or not?

[Bart Silverstrim]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 22:33 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>> Two solutions.
>>
>> Turn off your monitor, or stop rebooting.
>>
>> Ooh!  Run your computer headless.  Then you can access it remotely
>> and 
>> never see ANY boot messages.
>>
>> *sigh*
> 
> What's YOUR problem? Look, I personally don't care for these messages,
> but if they are there I don't care either, they are just not as exciting
> anymore as they were 11 years ago when I booted my first Slackware. If
> watched disks being mounted thousands of times, so what. 
> If something goes wrong, please tell me. But otherwise a faster, not
> distracting boot is worth more to me.
> 
> But the whole discussion is not about expert users (who can change a
> one-liner in menu.lst), but about non-experts. And I do think that the
> boot splash is preferable for them.

All I see is you complaining, though.

File it as a report at Canonical.  Create a fix to submit.  Find a large 
  number of people who are quizzically staring at their systems worrying 
it's not working right because of the bootup messages and have them join 
into the chorus of complaints until someone else fixes it.

And I think the real heart of the messages is what you just said.  "I 
don't care for these messages".  Non-experts don't care.  They just want 
to send email, surf porn, and write a report once in awhile.