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I always liked how MacOS loads silently without annoying the user even when it does some "hard" stuff like fsck. Generally I think engineers need to fight the
by mojuba 10y ago
I always liked how MacOS loads silently without annoying the user even when it does some "hard" stuff like fsck.
Generally I think engineers need to fight the temptation to show off the importance and complexity of their software by spitting out all the unnecessary details and logs.
- michrassena 10y agoI generally like how Windows and OSX both load silently when things go right too. Text on a black screen, to your standard computer user, looks like an error at worst and just a bunch of junk at best. Most Linux systems I've used, and I know when talking about Linux distributions someone can always find an exception, print a bunch of stuff when they start up.
- kosma 10y agoOne way to completely break a Mac user out of their comfort zone is to switch the machine into verbose boot mode (sudo nvram boot-args=-v). Makes it look like old Slackware.
- flukus 10y agoDon't all of the "user firendly" linux distros do this too?