1 month for all this? There is no way this isn't LLMed.
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What's wrong with a smaller-attack-surface TUI
Tui is way too large for that mentality.
Whats wrong with selecting the efi via your uefi boot option?
People like pretty things? People are allowed to like things you don't like? I People can't put an image of a dragon fucking a car as my their splash screen with a TUI?
I just recently started using ventoy, which is awesome.
Does this do something similar, but with more UI customization?
Ventoy isn't the same. That's for booting live/installation media but doesn't typically replace your bootloader in the conventional sense. Or at least, that's not its intended purpose.
This is intended to replace something like GRUB, the default Linux bootloader for most distributions. It lets you configure the various options or version of a kernel you might like to load, as well as handling the boot options for other operating systems that might be installed.

"Using a single eye, you can roughly estimate the position of the eyes nose and mouth on the face"
I used to be a funeral director and I learned this in mortuary school. The application there was restorative art. Basically, the width of an eye is very close to the height of a nose, also the height of an ear. The whole face is just about three noses tall.
Edit: corrected length to height, for nose.
16yo unemployed mf.
i wish i was doing this shit at 16. impressive if true.
Finally, I can replace the cold dark text of Grub with the warm embrace of an Anime girl when I boot.
We live in the future people!
What's wrong with grub?, for me grub and nano are one of those softwares that's always reliable, it got my back when I need it the most
that’s awesome
the thing with systemd “taking over”anything also has to do with it offering options that actually lessens efforts
nice to see another option apart from systemd-boot
this is the kind of things the uBlue project would be interested in looking forward to
There is Limine, which is something I use. And I use it with Arch, using systend.
I actually like systemd-boot more than GRUB. I see it for 1 second, so I really don't see the point of theming a bootloader but this is the world of freedom. Any preference is welcome.
There's also rEFInd, in case you didn't know. What we actually need is a stable and usable efistub manager.
Efistub is the simplest and best solution, but agree it could do with some basic manager.
I've never got stub reliably working manually.
I use it on all my machines. Debian, arch and void Linux. I have an efibootmgr script on each machine with my setup in, so if I ever need to change a setting, I update and run the script. In void, I have a hook for dracut to call it so everything stays working whenever I have a kernel update. It's very simple and easy once you get the hang of it.
the problem with systemd taking over anything also has to do with it offering options that actually lessens efforts
You systemd haters are practically feral. WTF does this have to do with systemd?
not hating, just saying that now that systemd-boot is being seen as a “modern” successor to GRUB it would feel to people who don’t like systemd like “oh no they’re replacing another standard tool with their own thing”
but the thing is, a lot of systemd tools have been adopted because they actually made work easier for people maintaining projects
I’m using Universal Blue as a reference because of their position of adopting novelty tools like bootc even before Fedora
now, their newest project Dakota is going to use systemd-boot to provide a full chain of trust
maybe systemd-boot seemed like the best option, it’s not like sD devs forced them to adopt their option
so it’s nice to see ACTUAL good projects so the freedom to choose doesn’t always mean giving up to the “best/easier” option
I really like that the Readme is very in detail. At a lot of Projects are lacking good documentation.
I wonder what these things do? 🫣
hutdown
eboot
irmware
Its nice and all until you forget to delete your 20 kernels + recovery
Not that this is not a problem in any other boot manager, to be honest...
If you look at something like fedora images, its something like fedora Linux 7.13.1-201.x64.f44, And this only gets worse once you get to something like the surface kernel
So probably it will shorten the names to something like Fedora Linux, but then you won't know what you want to select if anything goes wrong
What I mean is that boot managers are like static friction: it's a theoretical thing that simply does not impact you as long as youre moving, until the moment you stop at which point it becomes real and starts pushing back as strongly as you configured them to be
Just make your grub wait 3 secs before booting, it isn't worth saving that one press on the enter key
Would be nice to see a boot manager support Corsair keyboard drivers, bloody dumb Corsair keyboards require proprietary drivers to function.
Weird, I use wireless corsair, it works perfectly fine in boot manager.
Yeah I learned the hard way, I ran updates on my Debian desktop and didn’t realize the kernel failed to rebuild due to a driver not supporting the latest kernel version, well to my surprise the day after when I went to turn my desktop on and it failed to boot, I couldn’t navigate Grub to get into another kernel version or recovery.
That sucked.
Corsair K95 Mechanical keyboard.
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