On 03/11/2013 05:04 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Mon, 11.03.13 21:45, Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net) 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.
My natural reaction to the current grub2 menu that steals my boot is
that I start to hate Fedora and Linux for that we waste our time in ugly
boot menus and bikeshedding about them.

Lennart

How many times do you boot a day? If it is more than once or twice I would posit that is not
the normal user. So what is 2 extra seconds?

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