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    [–] Lulzagna@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)
    [–] backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I don't think that answers my question

    [–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Because these issues don't happen with EFI?

    [–] backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
    [–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 8 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."

    [–] backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 8 months ago

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

    [–] Lulzagna@lemmy.world 1 points 8 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

    [–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.