On Mar 12, 2013, at 12:31 PM, Brian Wheeler <bdwhe...@indiana.edu> wrote:

> Fedora isn't windows.  Its not OSX.  It should never be those things and I'm 
> grateful for it.
> 
> The boot menu doesn't hurt anything.  It has benefits.
> 
> What are the benefits of removing the boot menu?
> * Saving upwards of 5 seconds per day!  My god, think of the productivity 
> boost!
> * Its prettier.  Wow.  Neat.  Huh.
> 
> Why is this even being considered?

For the same reason the GRUB debug mode isn't enabled by default, for the same 
reason the debug kernel isn't used after alpha. The efficacy for most users 
most use cases is greater.

The line of what is considered debugging properly should be moved as 
improvements are made. I'm sure there were a bunch of sorry whiners missing 
verbose text boot scrolling by their screen by default, in favor of graphical 
boot.

This also benefits RHEL, which arguably shouldn't have nearly as many kernel 
induced problems upon release, and if it does it's likely a VM or bare meta and 
boy wouldn't it be nice if it did fallback on its own?


Chris Murphy
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