Re: Adjustments to userland for a quieter startup (RC system)

Remember that quiet/silent != fast. You might as well ask for a "pretty"
splash screen instead of the dizzying text scroll.

On Mon, Feb 3, 2025, 12:05 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 10:19:11AM +0000, Steven Harms (High-Security
> Mail) wrote:
> S> I also realize that this is a probably a controversial perspective. My
> motivation here is ultimately service to the FreeBSD Laptop project.
> Windows and OSX have conditioned many in the population of the
> FreeBSD-curious to expect a lot less text on startup if things are going
> well.
>
> This is how I call this strategy: "trying to win by mimicing current
> winner".
> This ain't going to work in general, even if you are mimicing good
> features.
>
> But this particular thing is a misfeature.  I find it a big problem that
> computer is absolutely silent and unresponsive when it is doing something.
> This has been a problem in the Windows world since Windows 95.  This is
> not a
> feature that gave Windows and OSX their current popularity.  It is a
> problem
> and was it fixed they may have eaten even a bigger piece of the desktop
> market.
> As you see many people responded with disagreement to your suggestion.
> Was OSX
> more reporting to its users, maybe those people would be already on OSX
> instead
> of FreeBSD?
>
> Of course, FreeBSD policy is - TOOLS NOT POLICY :) So patches to optionally
> enable silent boot are welcome.
>
> --
> Gleb Smirnoff
>
>