Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes

Everybody complaining about grub forgot about lilo

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

What I really would like: something that mimicked the old SGI start up, complete with boot audio and a micro distro for OS setup. These days, with snapshot filesystems, that shouldn't be too hard. Also, I've had to chroot to fix my system in my life a few times; I can't believe that's hard to automate.

While these are cool, I honestly wish GRUB was silent unless you’re holding a key during boot. The 5 seconds it takes to go away and just boot the OS by default is really unnecessary.

How do those background images scale on different monitors/resolutions?

Btw, how does grub figure out in what resolution to draw the interface?

"Grand Theft Gentoo": https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jacksaur/Gorgeous-GRUB/ref...

I'm still waiting for a bootloader that will show up right from the beginning on my external monitor like my desktop + CRT monitor could do 20 years ago. systemd-boot (included with Pop!_OS) doesn't do that - so I have to actually take out my (Thinkpad X1 extreme) laptop from its stand and open it up to be able to switch between boot options; would be good to know people's experience with Grub on this front.

I can finally make my computer look like the ones from hackers! Awesome.

Stuff like this is why I fell in love with Linux. Some amazing creativity in here. Almost makes me wish I dual booted with something so I’d have an excuse to see grub!

I am weary of GRUB and try to avoid it. The codebase is legendary for its inscrutability, bugs and performance issues abound and its configuration ritual is ridiculous.

And yet, it is king of bootloaders for a reason. It can frigging boot HannaMontanaBSD on an ENIAC. It can boot in UEFI mode, in BIOS mode, it is a chameleon that fits the hardware it is situated in. The devs have made a heroic piece of software.

Perhaps the inscrutability of the code and its issues are inevitable given the scope of the project. I don't know, I just wish we had a more sane codebase with GRUB's capabilities.

I had one from Distro Themes once in Manjaro up until one of heavy updates overwritten it with default theme.

Also, github gives me "You have exceeded a secondary rate limit" message while it's the first time I'm visiting it today. Yey.

I use and like rEFInd as my primary bootloader to dualboot Windows and Fedora.

Hackernews is obviously full of technical volks with need for encryption and what not, but I just like the macOS bootloader inspired looks that i could not replicate with grub.

Love the concept of BSOL, might give that a try.

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