Mainstream Usability

[Jason Knight]

I have seen the suggestion of using http://www.bootsplash.org/ a nice 
pretty booter that I believe Suse uses and that I would like to see 
fedora adopt. I agree that it is somewhat repulsive to the computer 
illiterate to see all of that text go across the screen. Being brought 
up with Windows they are apt to think that something is going wrong 
since the text is moving so fast. (that's what my parents would think at 
least)

> Each time I start a workstation-configured machine for a client 
> demonstration on console, I am harshly brought back to the realization 
> that users aren’t used to this level of output. They practically 
> recoil when they see the kernel load and it gives them a bad 
> impression right off the bat. An impression that the operating system 
> would be overly complicated to use, that employees would have trouble 
> training for it. Once a first impression is made, its rather difficult 
> to break as for most clients it tends to color their analysis of the 
> rest of the system.
>
-- 
Jason Knight
Fedora Core 1 Test 1 *x86_64*