alt Hacker NewsWhy would you actually want this? Such a weird desire to hide this kind of stuff because it's so inconsequential in my mind.
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JoshTriplett • today at 8:12 AM
On a modern laptop running Linux, the three slowest things in the boot are:
- The firmware
- The bootloader timeout
- Waiting for the user to type the encryption passphrase
Everything else takes almost no time at all. So, if you can eliminate 5 seconds from the boot process in the normal case, without eliminating your ability to debug the system in the unusual case, that's a win.
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Because sane OSes have sane defaults, and this is one of them. Hide information by default, unless called for. Want verbose boot log? Ask for it. Want boot menu? Ask for it. Need Bluetooth enabled at boot? Aak for it. Don't overburden the user with irrelevant info. When my 7 y.o. daughter fires up the Steam Decj, she doesn't need to see the boot menu.