onlinepersona@programming.dev
on 22 Dec 2023 19:57
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My experience with the linux boot has never been flicker-free. It’s bugged me for years, but I don’t have the technical knowledge to fix it. There’s a black screen between BIOS and plymouth, then a black screen between plymouth and the login screen, then another black screen between the login screen and the splash screen, and finally a black screen between the splash screen and when the desktop shows up.
Mac and windows do a much better job at having a seamless experience from boot to desktop.
stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi
on 24 Dec 2023 14:14
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It works fine for me, it’s just unnecessary argument AFAIK.
rotopenguin@infosec.pub
on 22 Dec 2023 21:51
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And the price for that beautiful, flicker-free experience is … some Macs will brick themselves. You can get them into a state where (IIRC) the dual-boot between an older macOS and a newer one (or Ashai) disagree on display modes, and the bootloader dies. Only Apple can fix that.
onlinepersona@programming.dev
on 24 Dec 2023 13:34
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That’s macs. Fuck em. With linux I can always put in a USB stick with a live linux and fix shit.
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
on 23 Dec 2023 02:44
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I usually just disable all this useless eyecandy shit. I like seeing the raw boot messages scroll across my screen. Let's me know early if something is fucked.
I wish Windows (11) would have this. Literally having a broken Windows Partition right now after starting Rick an Morty VR adventure game…
I only use Windows for VR gaming
hottari@lemmy.ml
on 23 Dec 2023 10:58
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Plymouth has been flicker-free for me, for a long while now. I use to force it to default to bgrt theme and even that is selected by default now. This is what I use loglevel=3 rd.udev.log_level=3 rd.systemd.show_status=false splash .
onlinepersona@programming.dev
on 24 Dec 2023 13:33
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Are you using full disk encryption? The password prompt for me is in text mode.
Yes. I get the LUKS prompt with the plymouth theme as well. But I should probably mention am using dracut and systemd-boot as my bootloader.
The only time the flicker-free boot doesn’t work as expected is when I interrupt the boot process to go to the bootloader menu.
onlinepersona@programming.dev
on 26 Dec 2023 11:11
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Hmm… I’ll have to fiddle around on NixOS to find out how that works 🙁 But “dracut” and “systemd-boot” might help me along. Will test it in a VM sometime. Cheers
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
on 23 Dec 2023 12:29
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dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml
on 25 Dec 2023 23:20
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I’m also trying to get the flicker-free boot. switching to systemd-boot improved the jerkyness, but the blank before the decrypt password remains.
I’ve enabled suspend-then-hibernate and whereas earlier I’ve had to endure this jerkyness rarely, now I have to witness it multiple times a day when resuming from disk. at least it’s faster than cold boot.
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My experience with the linux boot has never been flicker-free. It’s bugged me for years, but I don’t have the technical knowledge to fix it. There’s a black screen between BIOS and plymouth, then a black screen between plymouth and the login screen, then another black screen between the login screen and the splash screen, and finally a black screen between the splash screen and when the desktop shows up.
Mac and windows do a much better job at having a seamless experience from boot to desktop.
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It works fine for me, it’s just unnecessary argument AFAIK.
And the price for that beautiful, flicker-free experience is … some Macs will brick themselves. You can get them into a state where (IIRC) the dual-boot between an older macOS and a newer one (or Ashai) disagree on display modes, and the bootloader dies. Only Apple can fix that.
That’s macs. Fuck em. With linux I can always put in a USB stick with a live linux and fix shit.
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I usually just disable all this useless eyecandy shit. I like seeing the raw boot messages scroll across my screen. Let's me know early if something is fucked.
I wish Windows (11) would have this. Literally having a broken Windows Partition right now after starting Rick an Morty VR adventure game…
I only use Windows for VR gaming
Plymouth has been flicker-free for me, for a long while now. I use to force it to default to bgrt theme and even that is selected by default now. This is what I use
loglevel=3 rd.udev.log_level=3 rd.systemd.show_status=false splash.Are you using full disk encryption? The password prompt for me is in text mode.
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Yes. I get the LUKS prompt with the plymouth theme as well. But I should probably mention am using dracut and systemd-boot as my bootloader.
The only time the flicker-free boot doesn’t work as expected is when I interrupt the boot process to go to the bootloader menu.
Hmm… I’ll have to fiddle around on NixOS to find out how that works 🙁 But “dracut” and “systemd-boot” might help me along. Will test it in a VM sometime. Cheers
wiki.archlinux.org/title/Silent_boot
I’m also trying to get the flicker-free boot. switching to systemd-boot improved the jerkyness, but the blank before the decrypt password remains.
I’ve enabled suspend-then-hibernate and whereas earlier I’ve had to endure this jerkyness rarely, now I have to witness it multiple times a day when resuming from disk. at least it’s faster than cold boot.