On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 11:43:57PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: [...] > Wasn't it more simple when using Lilo or Syslinux (Keep It Simple for > Stupid) ? > > Yes I know, grub have so much more but sometime you don't need that much > and this just make it more complicated. While I'd roughly agree (I never understood why a boot loader has to grok 10-15 different file systems [0] or why it wants graphical themeability), there's a significant pressure from the "platform" side, so concentrating developer power makes sense. Keeping lilo/syslinux afloat in view of ever more baroque pre-boot environments you thought UEFI was it? Ha, ha) is a non-trivial task. You want to take care of it? Thought so :) Grub seems to be where some developer power concentrates currently, perhaps because the different Linux distros pour some into it. If you want to keep an alternative viable, you gotta get your trousers dirty :) But, please. This is deeply unfair: > A bit like using Microsoft Office 2020... You don't fathom how fiendishly complex and multiply broken 2020 is. Cheers [0] Don't rehash Grub's arguments for why they reached that conclusion. I've read them all. I understand them and I thoroughly respect their conclusion. I might have arrived at a different one, but have to admit that they have been deeper in the trenches than me and might know a thing or two I don't. - t
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