What should I say? And this isn't supposed to be any attack on your work. You acted professionally.
However, I am frustrated. Some 20, 25 years ago I was a Linux evangelist. 'We' actually were in front of the competitors in many aspects. Unfortunately, we lost, and fell behind. One reason was that the projects were steered by nerdy people. Not by profit-oriented managers. Nobody who needs the money to put food on the table would eventually cut his monetary supply by - without further ado or safety net - deprive the average user of the obvious possibility to boot an add-on OS. It is a nerdy decision, to complicate things further by having two different behaviours for BIOS and UEFI. How many an average user to whom I wanted to bring this wonderful OS would want or need to know about BIOS and UEFI? "Afuera" to the person who decided on that. The most useful behaviour in most cases is, that any single-OS-box 'just boots', without showing the OS to be booted, because there is no alternative anyway. And automagically does show the upcoming system(s), for the user to know the target OS in a multi-boot-system; and to be eventually able to change the boot target. "Hidden" doesn't describe this properly, I agree, but the behaviour is probably what a large majority of users would perceive as 'most common sense' solution. And, yes, without the slightest intention to understand if they boot with BIOS or UEFI. And even if a PHB enforced such a change, any reasonable OS would make sure, that the boot menu does show, in all cases, and inform the user that the behaviour has changed, and that from now onwards, in order to still be able to boot to a OS of the users' choice, the user would have to do this and that ... Or, better, be presented with a full explanation, the opportunity to change this by an edit, or - still better - immediately, automatically. It looks like people had given up to gain a wider audience for Linux with stuff like this. And this is only a proverbial small fish in comparison to what was messed up elsewhere. No, not necessarily technically, but on a managerial basis. AnybodyI will only treat his product and perspective customers like that, if he doesn't care about 'sales figures' (here: acceptance) at all. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2080785 Title: GRUB menu doesn't show with os-prober entries on BIOS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/2080785/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
