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My experience with the linux boot has never been flicker-free. It's bugged me for years, but I don't have the technical knowledge to fix it. There's a black screen between BIOS and plymouth, then a black screen between plymouth and the login screen, then another black screen between the login screen and the splash screen, and finally a black screen between the splash screen and when the desktop shows up.
Mac and windows do a much better job at having a seamless experience from boot to desktop.
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Plymouth has been flicker-free for me, for a long while now. I use to force it to default to bgrt theme and even that is selected by default now. This is what I use
loglevel=3 rd.udev.log_level=3 rd.systemd.show_status=false splash.Are you using full disk encryption? The password prompt for me is in text mode.
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Yes. I get the LUKS prompt with the plymouth theme as well. But I should probably mention am using dracut and systemd-boot as my bootloader.
The only time the flicker-free boot doesn't work as expected is when I interrupt the boot process to go to the bootloader menu.
Hmm... I'll have to fiddle around on NixOS to find out how that works 🙁 But "dracut" and "systemd-boot" might help me along. Will test it in a VM sometime. Cheers