I'm booting Windows more and more often these days to make music with Reason. While I fucking hate the OS to the hills, it is years ahead of GNU with regards to BOOTUP. Starting a Mac is even more impressive. Sound and full graphics from the second you hit the on button. Yeah yeah locked down hardware but that's not my point - I'm saying we can do better. I am at a desktop in about 15 seconds in Windows. OK, not everything is as responsive as it could be but neither is it in GNOME when I log in. It takes a good minute or so to boot Gentoo. Yes, I have a few services, etc. but why can't my bootup process both set my console font, enable numlock, and bring up my network at the same time!? Why can't a display manager start up and start managing my display as soon as possible, without waiting to enter a "graphical" run-level? Surely init should know if it's going to try and enter a graphical run-level, it can fire up X11 and a DM at the start and that can take care of showing me how slow my bootup is! I don't know how much of this boils down to sysvinit being shit, but maybe it's time to throw it the hell out in favour of something more modern. Would quite like to get some people's ideas so we can brainstorm a way out of the 80's. *** This bug report was brought to you by my "Getting Linux un-fucked" bug-filing rampage. Sorry if it seems stupid or offends. *** Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69579 ***
