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stolen from linux memes at Deltachat

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Its poorly the defacto standard on most common distros

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What's the problem with GRUB and will it impact someone who sees the boot menu maybe three times a year at most?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nothing is wrong with grub, I'm taking the piss by saying quippy things on a meme post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah, gotcha. You weren't the only one to say this, so I thought there might be something more to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't think so. You just want to pick the right tool for your system. With modern uefi boot systems, systemd-boot is simpler and quicker. There are use cases for grub, such as if you have the kernal outside of an efi partition.

Systemd-boot is my personal preference, boots fast, is unintrusive, and you never have to rebuild anything to make changes.

In the end, everyone is free to use what they want. That's the beauty of Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Oh man, I KNOW

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

After buying a steam deck and seeing how good everything worked I just yeeted my entire bootdrive. Never looked back ever again (Then again I still own a surfacebook so it's not fully commiting)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

@dinosaur game I'm sure this was a request of many

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