I thought GRUB was the default? Most of the distros I’ve ever used shipped with GRUB - Manjaro and Zorin definitely, and possibly KDE-Neon (which likely means Ubuntu right?)
I am by no means a normal person with a conventional setup so my opinions need to be taken with a grain of salt, but I personally love refind. It looks nice and modern and it auto-finds every operating system (including every installed kernel version) on my computer on each boot, rather than when updated from a command line. I don’t know if grub does the same nowadays, I haven’t used it in ages.
Is it hard to switch from grub to refind? I’ve been wanting to check it out. I’m running btrfs so I could do a snapshot before screwing with it and play around I suppose.
Why are people still using GRUB?
I thought GRUB was the default? Most of the distros I’ve ever used shipped with GRUB - Manjaro and Zorin definitely, and possibly KDE-Neon (which likely means Ubuntu right?)
archinstall will use systemd-boot by default which is included with the systemd package
If you’ve got an old PC, you might still need it.
What’s better than grub then?
I’d personally rate vanilla ice cream above most software, to be honest
Systemd-boot
Stabbing yourself in the dick with a knitting needle.
I am by no means a normal person with a conventional setup so my opinions need to be taken with a grain of salt, but I personally love refind. It looks nice and modern and it auto-finds every operating system (including every installed kernel version) on my computer on each boot, rather than when updated from a command line. I don’t know if grub does the same nowadays, I haven’t used it in ages.
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Some people like systemd boot.
Why not? Works well and most folks have experience with it
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I think there is systemd boot also
Is there any vastly different alternative? systemd-boot isn’t a whole lot different.
I’ve been using refind for quite some time and it’s super easy to add more boot options and customize in general. But it only supports EFI and UEFI.
Is it hard to switch from grub to refind? I’ve been wanting to check it out. I’m running btrfs so I could do a snapshot before screwing with it and play around I suppose.
Not sure how to go with that, I did a clean install with refind. Archwiki might have some articles about changing boot loaders/managers.
I think systemd-boot is a lot easier to configure.
I recently discovered this funny stuff
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_kernel_image
Dual boot maybe.
shrugma