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It's minimalist because if the system is unstable you don't want to have to do anything fancy like open a window or look up a bunch of localized resources, as those could run into the same corruption that led to the initial problem.

[Hnrobert42]

My major complaint is that they show the stack trace and memory address information first. 99% of users don't care about that. The instructions about options to proceed and their consequences are solid. They should just be put first.

[Ekaros]

On other hand at this point I think users were coming from DOS where the latest and most relevant information was always at the bottom. Like during boot sequence or in general execution of programs.

It is not like modern Linux when showing startup steps updates to top either, but to bottom.