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Fedora 40 Eyes The Ability To Boot Unified Kernel Images Directly
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and HOPEFULLY lead to a less jerky-flashy-switchy boot xperience, looks like a Vegas light show at present. switched to systemd-boot, but it's only a tiny bit better, still switches modes/blanks screen like five times.
Mine only switches modes once, on load save backlight.
yeah, if you don't have an encrypted drive (which I'm gonna do on a laptop NEVER) on some OEMs this can look semi-seamless.
here's what it looks like on a laptop:
with additional mode switching interjected and occasionally the horror that is GRUB inserts a 'Loading blah blah' text message; thankfully we're getting rid of that.
My HP crapbook doesn't have this OEM logo bullshit. Only the windows bootloader shows it, and the logo file is stored in the BGRT. So I don't think I'm affected unless the WBM or systemd-boot have this vuln.
Mine:
I will never understand people who install Plymouth, it just adds complexity in the boot process. If your distro installs this then I understand why: so it doesn't look like you're "hacking the government". If your distro doesn't install it and you install it then you probably picked the wrong distro.
Omg yes, I hate those. I'm sitting here thinking it's probably one of those simple things that scares people away from Linux.."Oh god, I see black text on white background. Abort, abort, ABORT!!"