On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 09:53:27AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote > I understand why someone used to GRUB would want to continue with > it on a UEFI system, but you have no experience of it so why are > you picking the boot manager that is hardest to configure, not to > mention the most bloated? > > Referencing your sig, GRUB is the desktop environment of boot > managers, the boot loader equivalent of emacs :)
I believe grub only has to be set up once, unless you often change boot drives, etc. If it's "set it and forget it" for a single-user, single hard-drive system, I'm OK with a one-time complex set-up. My main objection to "desktop environments" is that they're full time resource hogs. Grub starts linux, and then goes away. KDE and GNOME chew up cpu cycles and ram 24/7. The reason I got a new machine is that a 12-year core2 duo with 3 gigs of ram doesn't cut it any more. The machine would be just as functional with grub as with lilo. On the other hand, KDE/GNOME would bring the machine to its knees. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
