On 03/13/2013 06:25 AM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx
- (Nobody explicitly stated this, but) Displaying information geared
towards power users by default is intimidating / confusing to
less-knowledgeable users."
I'd call this to be an urban legend. A boot menu is
self-explanatory, even to new-comers.
It may baffle them when they see it for the first time, but will
very soon get used to it.
For me, personally, I remember it being uncomforting and scary.
And what did you do? I suppose, you pressed "Enter" rsp. did nothing and
watched the timeout to hit? Was it a real problem? I guess, no.
(I am also removing quiet and rhgb, because they hide away a lot of
useful information in case of errors).
Also, I wonder how you managed to install Fedora, because the installer
comes with much more scary questions, such as "keyboard selection" (Some
languages have several alternatives) or "timezone".
Or consider disk-formatting: Having experience all kind of bugs and
deficiencies with it over the 20 years, I am using Linux, this really
scares me - "What will happen? Will it blow away windows, ubuntu,
openSUSE, the older Fedora installation I want to keep as fallback? Will
it offer multibooting at all rsp. will it boot at all?
Ralf
--
devel mailing list
devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
