On 08/11/16 16:56, Bastien Nocera wrote:
Because, if we fail to boot, you won't have an opportunity to even get to the boot menu on many systems. Would be easier if we could design the hardware to go with the boot menu ;)
There could be a delay of say 3-5 seconds, with grub hidden, so if we fail to boot people have a change to react. In any case, I bet that 90% of the people with failed boots will try to boot from USB/CD to a live session.
If you are talking about Macbooks and such, I believe that Workstation should also consider limiting itself to say Thinkpads, maybe X, W and T series. This way the OS can be a lot better coupled with the H/W and the testing scope is a lot more focused.
There is nothing wrong with that, and IMO it would be very well received by the community in general.