From: "Lars 'Cebewee' Noschinski" <CebeWee@gmx.de>
To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
Cc: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>,
wa1hco@adelphia.net ((jeff millar)),
Raphael_Schmid@CUBUS.COM, <rob@r-morris.co.uk>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Scaring the non-geeks (was Bootscreen)
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 19:53:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <961914102.20030130195303@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301291409.57213.roy@karlsbakk.net>
Roy wrote:
[Bootscreen]
> I don't know about you, but most non-technical people DO NOT LIKE verbose
> messages they can't understand. My father was scared by the linux bootup when
> I installed Linux on their PC. I beleive most non-techies like the 'windows
> is now hopefully starting' screen. It shields the info they don't want.
>
> So please - don't scare the 'normal' people with (in their eyes) verbose crap.
Till Windows Me, every Windows user got textmode messages at boot time.
And they survived it.
--
CU Lars
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-30 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-28 14:11 AW: Bootscreen Raphael Schmid
2003-01-28 14:26 ` John Bradford
2003-01-28 14:48 ` Bootscreen Stefan Reinauer
2003-01-28 14:29 ` AW: Bootscreen Robert Morris
2003-01-28 14:59 ` Bootscreen Stefan Reinauer
2003-01-28 14:34 ` Bootscreen jeff millar
2003-01-28 14:40 ` Bootscreen John Bradford
2003-01-29 13:09 ` Scaring the non-geeks (was Bootscreen) Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2003-01-29 13:19 ` Richard B. Tilley (Brad)
2003-01-29 13:58 ` Xavier Bestel
2003-01-29 14:01 ` Richard B. Tilley (Brad)
2003-01-29 17:15 ` Wakko Warner
2003-01-29 14:12 ` Murray J. Root
2003-01-29 14:51 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-01-29 15:08 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-29 17:12 ` Rik van Riel
2003-01-30 18:53 ` Lars 'Cebewee' Noschinski [this message]
2003-01-30 19:29 ` Chris Friesen
2003-01-31 2:04 ` Barry K. Nathan
2003-01-31 16:09 ` Alvaro Lopes
2003-01-28 16:41 ` Bootscreen Valdis.Kletnieks
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-29 13:25 Scaring the non-geeks (was Bootscreen) Raphael Schmid
2003-01-29 17:18 Raphael Schmid
2003-01-29 19:51 Balram Adlakha
2003-01-29 20:12 ` John Bradford
2003-01-30 14:16 ` Stefan Reinauer
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