Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

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Le Lun 11 mars 2013 21:16, Lennart Poettering a écrit :
> On Mon, 11.03.13 13:08, Chris Murphy (lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>
>> On Mar 11, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Björn Persson <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> 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.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

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