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    submitted 10 months ago by Waffelson to c/linuxmemes
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    [–] Lulzagna 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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

    [–] Lulzagna 1 points 10 months ago

    Gotcha

    [–] bbuez 10 points 10 months ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] Lulzagna 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Because rEFInd exists

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I don't think that answers my question

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Because these issues don't happen with EFI?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    grub supports efi?

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    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."

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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

    [–] Lulzagna 1 points 10 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

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.