The console is not something what begginers like, but we can turn off the splash screen to accelerate the computer start and provide us information about currently started services.

At the begin, open the GRUB 2 config file:

sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
In the line:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
Remove the words quiet and splash, so it should look like:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
After saving the file, to refresh the GRUB settings, type in the console:

sudo update-grub
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