On Tuesday, June 30, 2020 1:20:18 PM MST Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
sd-boot is already installed on end users system, is light weight
compared to Grub ( sd-boot only supports uefi,smaller code size, easier
to maintain ).
Sure, gummiboot is more lightweight than GRUB. It also doesn't support a lot
of the features that GRUB does, such as full disk encryption (with stub in
MBR).
It already integrates with the service management framework
(systemd).
That's one of the problems with it. What does an init system have to do with
the bootloader?
More user friendly than Grub ( has lilo like interface easier to
change
kernel entry, which goes nicely with the default editor change )
I'm pretty sure GRUB has a much more user friendly interface than systemd-
boot.. Additionally, you can even drop to a cmdline if needed, in GRUB.
Gnome related changes such as Hans is proposing might be easier to
integrate for the desktop team ( less work, problem being fixed where it
arguably should be as opposed to systemd,grub and gnome for his feature
to work and more future proof work for the desktop team).
GNOME related changes.. to a bootloader? Sorry, I haven't heard of any of
those. Can you point me to a thread or page describing that kind of thing?
That sounds a bit.. odd, to say the least.
Regardless, if that's going to be a thing, it'd be perfectly fine, in my
opinion, for Workstation to use systemd-boot on UEFI by default, and GRUB only
on BIOS boot systems, while the rest of Fedora continues to use the more
powerful bootloader.
Could help further adapt UEFI and secure boot which the industry is
moving towards which helps keep Fedora moving along with it.
GRUB2 supports UEFI, quite well in fact.
Grub discourages users who have tried sd-boot from coming/returning
to
Fedora [1].
How's that? If you mean that users that have used GRUB prefer it over systemd-
boot, I'd be inclined to agree, but I don't see how it'd prevent people from
returning to Fedora.
Bottom line I think this will be a good move for the distribution and
a
good time to start looking into and make that move.
I have to disagree. The more systemd bloat that gets thrown into the mix, the
more concerned I become with this path. We already have a powerful and mature
project in GRUB2, which supports UEFI well, and is known to be stable.
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John M. Harris, Jr.