Warn before enabling Plymouth in the bootloader menu#4604
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Plymouth is purely cosmetic and a frequent source of boot breakage, most notably a black screen with the NVIDIA driver and a hidden LUKS password prompt. Show a yellow confirmation warning listing these risks when enabling it; when Plymouth is already enabled the user is only changing the theme, so the warning is skipped. Regenerate base.pot for the new strings.
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Fair enough to add a warning to Plymouth I recon.
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When enabling Plymouth in the bootloader menu, show a yellow confirmation warning that lists the most common ways it breaks booting, and ask the user to confirm. When Plymouth is already enabled the user is only switching the theme, so the warning is skipped in that case.
The warning text:
Why
Plymouth is purely cosmetic but is a frequent source of "system does not boot" reports, most notably a black screen with the NVIDIA driver and a hidden LUKS passphrase prompt (you cannot tell the system is waiting for your password). A confirmation step makes the risk visible before the user commits to it, while keeping the feature available for those who want it.
This follows the discussion in #4585, where a warning on selection was preferred over hiding Plymouth behind
--advanced.Notes
base.pot.Part of #4585.