22 points
13 points
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I’d suggest some kind of “press this key to view debug information” text (or make it documented but not visible, to avoid people just pressing whatever button is written on the screen)
5 points
Why? People aren’t idiots. If they don’t know what it means they can look it up or ask for help.
16 points
People aren’t idiots. If they don’t know what it means they can look it up or ask for help.
Flip that. People are idiots. If they don’t know what something means, they won’t look it up. Not Desktop Linux users today but, definitely normies if Linux ever comes on a system they buy in the future.
2 points
Because for the bulk of users, unless they are power users, all they need to know is that things didn’t work.
Things actually useful to have on the BSOD:
- distro-specific instructions for submitting a bug report
- option to reboot
- option to show debug info
- option to show a qr code that submits a bug report
- and, if configured by the distro or system admin, debug info
1 point
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