Everyone immediately knows the MacOS "bong" or Windows XP intro. Even stuff like SGI workstations had startup jingles that were iconic to them.
And... Linux has none of that? Like, I know there was some stuff early on maybe with KDE during its Crystal era, but mostly the Linux experience has been a quiet one.
I should pester my musically inclined friends to make something, then get Neal to make it the default boot sound for Fedora 41 🤔
there was a boot sound in older (pre-GNOME3) Fedora that one day, due to pulseaudio being quite shit back then, waited to play until an hour and a half after i logged in, and blared (unprompted by anything i was doing while taking notes) out of my laptop's speakers at full blast in the middle of realtime rendering class.
knowing the level of rigor with which these things tend to be implemented, i would err on the side of silence.
(that said, my SGI Indy's boot sound gives me so much life)
Audio isn't crap anymore so it shouldn't be a problem
Also do you have that sound file?
i would literally be pumped to do some state-of-the-art 3d rendering (source: im 3d artist)


