Why is anyone still using grub? This is on you at this point
Because it’s the one that supports the most setups, like LUKS and LVM (on the root partition)
which bootloader can’t do this? EFISTUB, systemd-boot and rEFInd can
Gotcha
What if I like grubbing around? What if I like when updates give me hell?
why is anyone (who uses a bootloader) still not using grub?
Because rEFInd exists
I don’t think that answers my question
Because these issues don’t happen with EFI?
grub supports efi?
And also seems to get borked, bricking people’s computers every few months.
grub is fine if users manually update it, and know what they’re doing. I used grub for years with only a couple of issues of which all were my own fault. But rEFInd has made this particular bit of fuckery unnecessary, and has been a godsend for “The Year of Linux” - which is really just another way of saying “Linux for non-techies.”
I only ever had real issues with GRUB during OS installation, and they were my fault.
rEFInd doesn’t break and works really well, though I’m no bootloader guru so take my opinion with a grain of salt
Good to know, I’ll change when the dists start replacing grub with rEFInd, last time I changed bootloader was lilo -> grub from what I can find it was around 2013 Debian switched.
you guys use GRUB lol
Doesn’t everyone just boot by entering machine code with the switch panel in the front?
For real, systemd-boot is superior in every way.
NixOS superiority.
About to make the move I think, and just loaded up a thumb-drive this morning before wandering in here. Wish me luck!
Good luck, and make sure to use version control!
Tumbleweed and Mint offer Snapper Rollback configured by default, available from the Grub menu. And that’s friggin’ noïce.
I’m more of a First World Anarchist myself, I only ever rescue my os-breaking, Arch-is-botched mistakes with a Live Ubuntu thumbdrive.
This has never happened to me, well at least not yet. The only thing that’s ballsed up recently is Nvidia drivers…
Latest kernel update restarted my session (closing all programs, including my terminal) before mkinitcpio, easy fix, but yeah, did require live boot media.
I can see how that would be problematic. Hopefully that’ll never happen to me…
Lauths in timeshift and rEFInd.
Indeed. UKIs are the way.
Would not have happened with systemd-boot
rEFInd autodetects bootable images. Doesn’t help if mkinitcpio suddenly fails to find hooks, tho.
Didnt had any boot related issues since I moved to systemd-boot, even secureboot functions very well with it…
The manga (少年のアビス) is a banger
Meanwhile, I had to reinstall my dualboot of mint because without it I dont have a working grub configuration to boot into KDE Neon. I spent a very bitter sunday convincing myself I could find a solution that doesnt involve keeping a 64GB partition on my home directory purely to appease the fucking UEFI gods.
This is why people who want to be product use Debian 😂
People who want to be a product use microsoft windows
Can’t argue with that 😂 however it’s funny to see someone else also saying that.