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)
why is anyone (who uses a bootloader) still not using grub?
Because rEFInd exists
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!
Would not have happened with systemd-boot
Didnt had any boot related issues since I moved to systemd-boot, even secureboot functions very well with it…
Okay but jokes aside, how many users actually have issues with that? So far it never broke anything for me, even when it apparently should have, according to a forum post I only read several weeks late, after finally noticing the intervention required tag
The faulty GRUB patch was a widespread issue. Syu -> reboot -> fail to boot. It was especially annoyng since you couldn’t just rollback like with any other faulty arch update.
Besides that, during the 2-3 years I mained it, I’ve had Arch often fail to boot after updating it for the first time in a few weeks. And on endeavour the update script gave up one day, and so I had to remember to manually mkinitcpio or it would fail to boot.
1 year on current Arch install and have yet to have a issue
It happened twice for me and now i don’t have the time to backup everything and reinstall the os, so i moved to a debian base
You don’t have to reinstall the os just because grub broke 😕
The first time that this happened i spend a good chunk of time to learn how to fix the problem without reinstalling, the secound time i just moced everything to another driver, reinstalled and moved everything back, it took a feel hours but most of the time i was just waiting for the files to move, so i was able to do something else instead, i don’t use brtfs because it corrupted mi ssd once (i have no idea why), but i’m fine on mint, now i don’t have much time at home, and when i do i need to be sure that nothing will broke because i have a lot of work to do from my job and college, i really like arch but i really need something stable right now
you guys use GRUB lol
For real, systemd-boot is superior in every way.
This is why people who want to be product use Debian 😂
People who want to be a product use microsoft windows
