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We don't see enough of stuff like this in Linux.
by et2o 8y ago
We don't see enough of stuff like this in Linux.
- awalton 8y agoNo we don't. Because it is hard, thankless work, and the people doing this work are often harassed endlessly online to the point where nobody actually wants to do the work anymore. And yet, some people are still amazed by how bad things are, completely oblivious to why that might be... The magician engineers at the core of making things like this just work and be pleasant do not get anywhere near the credit they deserve - this is a herculean task to have Just Work(tm) on white box hardware. Hans deserves a huge thanks from all of us for slogging through this thankless work.
- odilontalk 8y agoNice work Hans, keep it up! We need this kind of work to improve UX in Linux ecosystem. Gonna tweak my Fedora 28 settings to have the same behavior.
- linuxftw 8y agoNot only is it thankless work, but some of us don't want it, I prefer to say "no thanks" I want to see the scary boot log, I don't need the system to be pretty, I need it to be functional.
- cweagans 8y agoWhy not both?
- linuxftw 8y agoMy distaste for modern UI designs aside, sometimes these two things are at odds. If one considers a grub menu to be 'ugly' and wishes to hide it, that is directly at odds to its usefulness.
- cweagans 8y agoCan you not default to pretty and have a way to unhide it when necessary? Macs take this approach - they show the Apple logo until the login screen is ready, but if you need to change the boot device or whatever, you can hold down the Option key. To me, this is an entirely reasonable behavior that optimizes for the 99% of time where you just want your computer to boot quickly and start using it.