yeah, if you don’t have an encrypted drive (which I’m gonna do on a laptop NEVER) on some OEMs this can look semi-seamless.
here’s what it looks like on a laptop:
OEM logo
screen goes blank, backlight off
light on, OEM logo
blank screen
decrypt password
blank screen
loading spinner with OEM logo
gdm/sddm login screen
blank screen
9a. (sddm) loading animation
9b. (sddm) jerk when fractional scaling kicks in
and finally there’s the desktop
with additional mode switching interjected and occasionally the horror that is GRUB inserts a ‘Loading blah blah’ text message; thankfully we’re getting rid of that.
My HP crapbook doesn’t have this OEM logo bullremoved. Only the windows bootloader shows it, and the logo file is stored in the BGRT. So I don’t think I’m affected unless the WBM or systemd-boot have this vuln.
Mine:
1. Screen turns on
2. I pick EndeavorOS in systemd-boot
3. It starts spitting out logs (I love this behavior)
4. It switches modes once the backlight is loaded
5. I log in
6. KDE loads
I will never understand people who install Plymouth, it just adds complexity in the boot process. If your distro installs this then I understand why: so it doesn’t look like you’re “hacking the government”. If your distro doesn’t install it and you install it then you probably picked the wrong distro.
yeah, if you don’t have an encrypted drive (which I’m gonna do on a laptop NEVER) on some OEMs this can look semi-seamless.
here’s what it looks like on a laptop:
with additional mode switching interjected and occasionally the horror that is GRUB inserts a ‘Loading blah blah’ text message; thankfully we’re getting rid of that.
My HP crapbook doesn’t have this OEM logo bullremoved. Only the windows bootloader shows it, and the logo file is stored in the BGRT. So I don’t think I’m affected unless the WBM or systemd-boot have this vuln.
Mine:
1. Screen turns on 2. I pick EndeavorOS in systemd-boot 3. It starts spitting out logs (I love this behavior) 4. It switches modes once the backlight is loaded 5. I log in 6. KDE loadsI will never understand people who install Plymouth, it just adds complexity in the boot process. If your distro installs this then I understand why: so it doesn’t look like you’re “hacking the government”. If your distro doesn’t install it and you install it then you probably picked the wrong distro.