Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 12:10:05 -0600 From: Maku Bex <zagazaw2004@gmail.com> To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org> Cc: "Steven Harms (High-Security Mail)" <sgharms@stevengharms.com>, Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Adjustments to userland for a quieter startup (RC system) Message-ID: <CALvWPyZjq%2BTAE9e4VgNkc2RMeUu7oR_RmZS3kx=tcJG=Z%2B762Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Z6EFaan24qJc82hw@cell.glebi.us> References: <JDv17dtjl93rFR9A8XB9qHlawC2oW7JmmXWsnMKq2r51p61si48CAAOzIBi6pY_nTMdJ7zCvSL6M-Hics-CrqLhDJjZP2SG0v1zEHqH8Ug4=@stevengharms.com> <CAFYkXjmN7ma1GDuFP5p3KdHJtoO9Yri-iNLtuOL6mDKx91CBhA@mail.gmail.com> <CAFYkXjnEW8G03VKw4B77-aMQFnPLH7RZQApxWqCZpts5rpQWiA@mail.gmail.com> <S0scwcCr6CV-mqjXoa25r0XOQqm86TCcIXyl9iZ0mV-BrIKOlkfuHKxqjpbH8cuinimu4-9QRren6m9GGEZ5j_euqb9Vz0Wry1kXCalH30Y=@stevengharms.com> <Z6EFaan24qJc82hw@cell.glebi.us>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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 > > [-- Attachment #2 --] <p dir="ltr">Remember that quiet/silent != fast. You might as well ask for a "pretty" splash screen instead of the dizzying text scroll. </p> <br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 3, 2025, 12:05 Gleb Smirnoff <<a href="mailto:glebius@freebsd.org">glebius@freebsd.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 10:19:11AM +0000, Steven Harms (High-Security Mail) wrote:<br> 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. <br> <br> This is how I call this strategy: "trying to win by mimicing current winner".<br> This ain't going to work in general, even if you are mimicing good features.<br> <br> But this particular thing is a misfeature. I find it a big problem that<br> computer is absolutely silent and unresponsive when it is doing something.<br> This has been a problem in the Windows world since Windows 95. This is not a<br> feature that gave Windows and OSX their current popularity. It is a problem<br> and was it fixed they may have eaten even a bigger piece of the desktop market.<br> As you see many people responded with disagreement to your suggestion. Was OSX<br> more reporting to its users, maybe those people would be already on OSX instead<br> of FreeBSD?<br> <br> Of course, FreeBSD policy is - TOOLS NOT POLICY :) So patches to optionally<br> enable silent boot are welcome.<br> <br> -- <br> Gleb Smirnoff<br> <br> </blockquote></div>home | help
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