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I'm a huge proponent of customisation, but for me, the less I have to see or even think about GRUB, the better.

Yeah, I usually see it for seconds a year. If I saw it often enough to worry about theming it, I'd rather spend my time on fixing whatever caused me to have to see it so ofen.

You'd spend more quality time with it if it looked beautiful. Think about it going up and down those menus for hours on end. Quality grub.

Meanwhile, with kexec on a good day you can spend zero time in the bootloader for as long as the system doesn't need a full hard-off power down:)

Look at the screenshots. They are all about booting multiple OSes or distros, and should make sense for those who switch between them often. ("Why" is another question.)

I used to dual boot with Windows before WSL was a thing and I agree that back then I'd see GRUB on a daily basis.

BTW, before that, coLinux existed!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_Linux

I think this is the kind of thing I would do If I had to choose between OSs with frequency, either home lab/experimentation or linux for stuffs and windows for games kind of scenario.

So there is nothing to fix, the nice choice screen is a feature.

Ah. You don't ever patch, I guess.

That's where those few seconds a year comes from. My boot screen is visible for a second or two when I reboot - this isn't the 90s.

I never wait for a computer to boot by staring at it unless I'm fixing a problem with the boot process. I wander off and come back later.

When I'm on the move I'll power up a PC without sitting down and come back to it later, but never "wander off" if I'm already sitting there since it only takes about 20 seconds to cold boot, 5 seconds of which is intentional delay in case I want to choose something other than my default OS from the bootmenu.

I say it is really nice not to have any problems with the boot process myself.

> but never "wander off" if I'm already sitting there since it only takes about 20 seconds

Ah I take it you don't have ADHD then? For me, it's not the 20 seconds - it's the fact that this time it might be the 2 minutes boot because it did an update in the background. So I'm happy to assume that any boot/reboot is 2 minutes long.

Or he is managing headless systems where you don't see the boot process unless something has gone wrong.

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