During today's BerkeleyLUG meetup on Jitsi, Rick M. and Michael P. (and one or two others?) were assisting Elise S. with her splash screen bootup issue on Ubuntu (yes, could've been Xubuntu or Lubuntu.)
IIRC, this involved assisting Elise with editing her computer's /boot/grub/grub.cfg startup file as the root/superuser ('sudo') so that she and others could view the startup messages present when the computer starts loading X/L/Ubuntu.
Instead of using the slightly more difficult to use 'Vi' editor, might I suggest that 'Nano' is and would have been a better choice to use in this case? For the one or two of you reading this who weren't aware of this already,
"Nano is the default
terminal-based text editor in Ubuntu and many other Linux distributions" [1].
~~~~~~~~~ quoting [2] ~~~~~~~~~~~
[Nano is] part of a family of text editors that includes the more robust (but
significantly more complex) vi and emacs. For most uses, nano is easy to
use and it doesn't require a significant learning curve. Just as with
the 1980s-era text-based word processors like WordStar, nano offers a
dynamic two-line command reference at the bottom of the terminal window.
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Using 'nano' likely also fulfills the role (again, in the particular case with Elise's simpler editing tasks) of the KISS Principle (see [3], [4], [5] and similar references.)
-Aaron
References/excerpts
[1]https://itsfoss.com/nano-editor-guide/
[2]https://www.lifewire.com/beginners-guide-to-nano-editor-3859002
[3]http://principles-wiki.net/principles:keep_it_simple_stupid
[4]https://people.apache.org/~fhanik/kiss.html
[5]https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/kiss-keep-it-simple-stupid-a-design-principle
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