Booting up a PC should be a pleasant experience. The default boot experience currently is grub where the UI is tiny and if you want to edit it, you need to add a ppa and install grub-customizer, and then reorder the boot menu, and then edit some variables just to scale the UI. And even then, you get a list of the boot options (I am dual booting with Windows) and not some fancy boot menu.
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Why are we recommending users like me to use better software instead of just, you know, replacing grub with refind in the distro itself?
Make rEFind the default boot manager
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Re: Make rEFind the default boot manager
For one because rEFInd - as is in the name - only works on UEFI systems and not on BIOS systems. So using rEFInd would make the installation more complex, installing one boot loader on some systems and by necessity another on other systems. GRUB also supports more filesystems, having built-in support for dozens of filesystems, while rEFInd only supports what the UEFI spec mandates (FAT) plus ext4 and btrfs.
It may make sense to use a EFI-only boot loader at some point. As for customizing your boot loader configuration, it sounds like you have more specific needs than the average user. Few software choices satisfy every user, there will always be somebody that wants something different from the default for some part of the OS. How great that we have the option to do so.
It may make sense to use a EFI-only boot loader at some point. As for customizing your boot loader configuration, it sounds like you have more specific needs than the average user. Few software choices satisfy every user, there will always be somebody that wants something different from the default for some part of the OS. How great that we have the option to do so.
