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Edit /etc/default/grub, and remove "quiet" from wherever you find it. This edit will take effect only after /boot/grub/grub.cfg is regenerated. If plymouth is installed, uninstall it, which should perform a regeneration, as well as save some disk space, quicken boot, and display lots of messages during boot.
Actually, many operating systems do similar things. Mac's "MacOS" (nee "OS/X") normally presents a lovely logo-screen, but it's possible to switch to a mode where "the messages fly by." (In case they suddenly stop.) I'm not sure about Windows, but I bet they have such a thing too. Most folks simply don't want (or need) to see them.
Also*– Linux provides a command ... dmesg, I believe ... which allows you to review those messages after the system has successfully started up.
I used to boot with "quiet" and often wondered where my lovely penguins had gone to. It turns out that if you want to see nproc penguins, you can't do it quietly.
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