snarlydwarf;553272 Wrote: 
> 
> "Ooops, the drive for /home died..."
> 
> The 'old way' was "fine, I'll boot and whine about /home not mounting,
> maybe forcing you into single user mode to fix it, but at least I'll
> boot!"

It should display a message like "something failed to mount, hit S to
skip and continue" (and some other key to drop to shell and
investigate). But this message display during bootup is messed up. In
the old days we had text and a serial console. Now with all the fancy
graphical boot (plymouth) its getting complicated and introduce bugs
that fail to display the messages. KISS rules.

But for me the main reason for a graphical desktop is, that you can
easily run multiple xterms.


-- 
fragfutter

You're obviously not a Linux person. If you were, you'd know that the
most important feature of a GUI is the icon that opens a shell window.
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