• jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    Console output with status of the current operation, including error and warning messages

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      5 months ago

      Not to defend Windows too much in a Linux community, but you can turn on verbose status messages for the screens you see during startup, shutdown, login and log off. It’s a setting that can either be turned on with the local or domain group policy, or by registry key.

      Still though, it’s not as detailed as full console output, but is definitely more helpful than just telling you to wait.

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      The average user does not want to see that and does not need to see that. That’s how you end up with thousands of support requests of “why is my computer showing these errors?”

      Things should be abstracted from the users by default. There’s no need for grandma to see a console output every time windows needs to update.

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        I disagree. I think that some aspects of the software should be open about what they’re doing to everyone. Otherwise people just get used to the idea that everything is a black box that they have no real control of. It also helps educate people on IT and its concepts overall.

        Even if they can’t specifically tell what is going on, they can see something is going on. And as long as this does not make it harder to use, the more info the better.