Comment 8 for bug 563878

I pretty well agree with that last comment. The splash-screen is hardly a critical issue - much better concentrate on making Lucid as reliable as possible. Of course, IKT is right that such a thing wouldn't happen with Apple. But that's because Apple works on a relatively restricted amount of hardware and each successive version is toiled over behind closed doors for many months, even years, before release. All Linux distros rely on their communities of users to give feedback about their experiences on an unimaginable amount of hardware. It's amazing it works as well as it does; and if we can recruit even more Linux users the result will be truly awesome! Actually, as far as the boot experience goes, I'm more worried about the black screen that appears for the most part of the boot process than the splash-screen itself. I can imagine it scaring quite a lot of people. I myself thought there was a problem when I saw it. Then the splash screen came along and I knew everything was fine. Didn't last long, though: maybe two seconds at the very most. Could the splash-screen be made to appear almost immediately?