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A “Blue Screen Of Death” on the #BeaglePlay board, using the new DRM panic infrastructure contributed by my awesome colleague Jocelyn Falempe.
@javierm judging from the fantastic comments on Phoronix the big issue is the choice of color.
I wonder how "Blue screen of death" can have any other color?!?!?
@sam_ravnborg @javierm I shouldn't have read the comments. I should just not read comments on Phoronix at all. Only stupid people there.
@sam_ravnborg @javierm Internet randoms will complain about literally anything and it shows 
@javierm on the BSOD i've always disliked the blue because of the contrast issue, it's become more of an issue as i've gotten older, i find it really hard to read ANY colour on a blue background. +++ for high contrast error messages :)
@icesmurf The blue is a tradition from the first BSoD on the first windows version because the default windows background was blue and it appeared that way
A black screen may be interesting but the big blue screen is instantly synonym of crash in people's mind
@javierm I wish it would look more like a Guru Meditation. 
@javierm So uh... what exactly went so wrong with the old one that it must be replaced by whatever this is? "The error information was too detailed for diagnostics"? 
@nirui the original simply does not appear on a desktop environment it just freezes everything, it only appears in console
@Rathmox Well then the original design was also bad. I hope it can print more debug information (error log, stack etc) than just a simple message.
The blue screen for Windows is so shitty because Microsoft don't want people to know too much about the inner workings of their OS kernel. We don't need to do the same in Linux, do we?
@nirui Having the whole Kernel Panic log on the blue screen can be useful, with the path to the log file.
People will understand that it's a PC crash anyway so no need to make it very fancy
KagurazakaMiyabi 
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@javierm
Wow, I didn't realize the Screens of Death came in so many colors(:scream), until I read this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_of_death
@javierm Finally! It took a long time to copy this Windows feature!
@javierm This is so cool!