Necessity of booting screens?

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@therealagt

When booting, i get a screen with some printed boot process messages, a dynamic and a static logo screen, the log in screen and after that a kde logo screen. Just for my understanding, is there a necessity for this?

You dont need almost any of those.

And especially the Plasma login splash is just superfluous bloat between you and the desktop loading.

Plymouth boot splash (the earliest splash you would see) can also be disabled;

[Tutorial] Disable or Remove Plymouth (boot splash)

Introduction CachyOS ISOs provide and enable plymouth by default. From the ArchWiki: Which is to say it is not a system-critical component.* It also has a nasty habit of breaking boot under various circumstances. In those cases, or simply to avoid the bloat, you can temporarily disable plymouth, permanently disable it, or remove it entirely. * - Some systems use Plymouth to forward decryption prompts. This may be especially useful in cases where the language and input devices might differ.…

If you want mostly or totally clean then you very well can (I do) ..

Silent boot - ArchWiki