Le mardi 04 février 2014 à 11:41 +0100, Ludwig Nussel a écrit :
Frederic Crozat wrote:
Le mardi 04 février 2014 à 11:13 +0100, Ludwig Nussel a écrit :
Ok, that sentence compares plymouth to other splash solutions but it makes no statement about the situation compared to a boot with no splash at all.
Isn't it simply bootloader -> resolution switch -> black screen -> X rather than bootloader -> resolution switch -> fancy screen -> X
Not everybody is lucky to have an SSD and a system booting in 5s.
Are you saying systemd didn't make your system boot fast? ;-P
As a Project (and Release) Manager and as somebody who has been contributing on Desktop Linux distributions for almost 15 years, I'm trying to not apply just my own feelings and stuff I'm seeing on my system as a general rule to take a decision. In that regard, even if I've recently switched to SDD on some of my systems, I also know a lot of people don't have SSD systems and usually have a boot time around 30s (to sometime one minute).
Seriously, what big offenders in the boot time of a desktop installation are left?
Disk access and slow CPU, usually, something we can't fix :(
How many seconds are the pain threshold of staring at a black screen?
For any regular user, if you don't see anything happening after 5s,
something is wrong, I'd say (can't find studies on that matter, I'm
speaking from memory there).
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Frederic Crozat