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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience
From:       Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk () redhat ! com>
Date:       2013-03-14 10:55:54
Message-ID: 5141ACBA.3090904 () redhat ! com
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On 03/11/2013 09:45 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Lun 11 mars 2013 21:16, Lennart Poettering a écrit :
>> On Mon, 11.03.13 13:08, Chris Murphy (lists@colorremedies.com) wrote:
>>
>>> On Mar 11, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Björn Persson <bjorn@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Or nothing at all displayed unless the user happens to know to press
>>> some key at the
>>>> right moment?
>>>
>>> A multiboot system needs at least a message to inform the user how to
>>> get to the boot manager (the GRUB menu). A Fedora only system probably
>>> should entirely suppress the menu or notice how to get to it.
>>
>> Somebody who is capable of installing multiple operating systems on one
>> machine should easily be savvy enough to remember that pressing
>> shift/esc/space/f2/whatever gets him the boot menu.
>>
>> If you installed multiple OSes and noticed that the boot menu is gone,
>> wouldn't pressing these keys be your natural reaction anyway?
> 
> My natural reaction would be to curse whoever is making me waste minutes
> in press-random-keys-to-see-if-you-can-unlock-boot games to "win" a few
> seconds. I'm pretty sure any poll would find the same result.

+1
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