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[-] Lulzagna@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

Why is anyone still using grub? This is on you at this point

[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 16 points 8 months ago

Because it's the one that supports the most setups, like LUKS and LVM (on the root partition)

[-] EddyBot@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago

which bootloader can't do this? EFISTUB, systemd-boot and rEFInd can

[-] Lulzagna@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago
[-] bbuez@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

What if I like grubbing around? What if I like when updates give me hell?

[-] backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 points 8 months ago

why is anyone (who uses a bootloader) still not using grub?

[-] Lulzagna@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago
[-] backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 8 months ago

I don't think that answers my question

[-] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 8 months ago

Because these issues don't happen with EFI?

[-] backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 8 months ago
[-] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 8 months ago

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."

[-] backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 8 months ago

I only ever had real issues with GRUB during OS installation, and they were my fault.

[-] Lulzagna@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

rEFInd doesn't break and works really well, though I'm no bootloader guru so take my opinion with a grain of salt

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

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