Grub2 is scary and complicated. Remove grub from the equation, and all the scary goes away.
replyGrub is really impressive in how it consistently spent the last 30 years focused on improving everything except the UX of the one workflow 99.99% of its involuntary users need it for (boot linux as reliably as possible, and make it easy to debug when it does not).
replygrub is just a operating system. it is quite good when shit hits the fan
reply~90% of the failure modes grub can fix don't exist without grub. I can't remember any time when its needless complexity was actually a net benefit compared to literally any of its alternatives (and between gummiboot/syslinux/efilinux/isolinux/systemd-boot/efistub I've used a lot of them).
replyi never got it to work
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