The text while booting and shutting down looks very bad and primitive. Look at SUSE Linux 10.1's bootup splash. It's simply elegant! If we want, we can press Esc to see the actual messages but till then we have just a graphical screen with something moving to indicate the progress of the bootup.
Fedora's bootsplash is also neat, but SUSE wins. I don't know about Ubuntu, but Kubuntu's usplash is definitely *not* cool. -- usplash messages look a little bland and a little intimidating https://launchpad.net/bugs/39173 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
