I’d suggest some kind of “press this key to view debug information” text (or make it documented but not visible, to avoid people just pressing whatever button is written on the screen)
People aren’t idiots. If they don’t know what it means they can look it up or ask for help.
Flip that. People are idiots. If they don’t know what something means, they won’t look it up. Not Desktop Linux users today but, definitely normies if Linux ever comes on a system they buy in the future.
I’d suggest some kind of “press this key to view debug information” text (or make it documented but not visible, to avoid people just pressing whatever button is written on the screen)
Why? People aren’t idiots. If they don’t know what it means they can look it up or ask for help.
Flip that. People are idiots. If they don’t know what something means, they won’t look it up. Not Desktop Linux users today but, definitely normies if Linux ever comes on a system they buy in the future.
How would a kernel that has already crashed handle keypresses?
I’m not an OS dev, I have no idea how stuff this low-level works.