Hi, first of all, I respect your work very much and am actually very grateful for avahi, pulseaudio and systemd as I was for ifplugd back in the old days when Gentoo was cool. > Fast boot times matter to dual-boot users, they matter to everybdoy who > doesn't run his system 24/7, That is indeed very true and the experience of rebooting to Windows to play a few games with friends sucks because of long shutdown and bootup times. On the other hand, from my experience the situation frequently requires making tee, rearanging furniture and preparing waterpipe charcoal which means lot of confusion and running around. I have witness, several times, people booting back to their default system and having to go through the reboot once again just because they have missed the OS selection dialog. You might have noticed that Microsoft goes with 20 second timeout on Windows/Windows dual-boot systems. I am sure there is a reason for that. > Fast boot times matter on desktops, they matter on embedded, they matter > on mobile, they matter or servers, they matter everywhere. As have already been mentioned before, POSTing server takes so long that GRUB delay is hardly noticeable. But what is worse, if you miss the kernel selection dialog on a server, you look at UP TO FIVE MORE MINUTES of waiting for the damn thing before you get another attempt. I have worked with IBM, Dell and HP remote management consoles and one thing can be guaranteed -- if you give user less than 2s time window after display mode switch, she *will* frequently miss the keystroke. So, what would be the solution that will actually help on laptops while keeping benefits of the current system where people need them? I am thinking of a "Reboot To" dialog in GNOME, which will help with dual-booting. Next, add anaconda option to toggle GRUB prompt and autodetect it's default state, which will speed up boot on laptops while keeping sysadmins sane.
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