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submitted 7 months ago by 0x4E4F to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (5 children)

People are still using GRUB to dual boot? It’s not 2010 anymore. systemd-boot is the objectively superior choice.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago

I just unplug the exposed SATA cable from one ssd and plug it into the other SSD. I am the bootloader

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

Is systemd-boot a bootloader?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It’s a boot manager, technically.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

How does it compare to refind?

[–] 0x4E4F 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Good for people that use systemd... what about the rest of us...

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

All six of you Luddites? You figure it out.

[–] 0x4E4F 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You should really take a closer look at the Void user base...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Loud doesn’t mean numerous. Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Fedora, Arch, and Manjaro take up almost all of the desktop install market.

[–] 0x4E4F 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, and it's a big market... all 6% of it.

My point was, systemd is not the only init system, there are others. Just because it's used by over 90% of the Linux distros out there, doesn't mean it's the only one, thus offering a solution that is tied to systemd is not exactly a solution. Grub already has it figured out, why complicate things further.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

laughs in rEFInd

also systemd-boot is just worse GRUB, CMV

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

I have no desire to engage with an objectively incorrect view. However, you are the second person to mention refind which I am unfamiliar with and I'm intrigued.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

systemd-boot is GRUB but without customization and fewer supported features (LLVM root etc). What more is there to say?

rEFInd is (as the name implies) an EFI bootloader that, on every boot, scans all attached storage devices for a bootable partition and presents all those found in a boot menu with a quite nice graphical theme

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

does systemd-boot require a distro that runs systemd or is it just the name

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It’s part of systemd, just for those that use it.