• dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml
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    This latest UKI work for Fedora will lead to better UEFI Secure Boot support, better supporting TPM measurements and confidential computing, and a more robust boot process.

    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.

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        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:

          1. OEM logo
          1. screen goes blank, backlight off
          1. light on, OEM logo
          1. blank screen
          1. decrypt password
          1. blank screen
          1. loading spinner with OEM logo
          1. gdm/sddm login screen
          1. blank screen
        • 9a. (sddm) loading animation
        • 9b. (sddm) jerk when fractional scaling kicks in
          1. and finally there’s the desktop

        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.

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          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:

          1. Screen turns on
          2. I pick EndeavorOS in systemd-boot
          3. It starts spitting out logs (I love this behavior)
          4. It switches modes once the backlight is loaded
          5. I log in
          6. KDE loads
          

          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.

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      11 months ago

      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!!”