So why do so people still use GRUB?

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  • tasty-grubs

    A collection of GRUB2 themes.

    Bc of this https://github.com/okayvid/tasty-grubs

  • systemd

    The systemd System and Service Manager

    I second that. GRUB has color customization, unlike systemd-boot (see related GitHub issue).

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    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • grub-btrfs

    Include btrfs snapshots at boot options. (Grub menu)

    Like GRUB has grub-btrfs to automate this process, refind has refind-btrfs. I never tested grub-btrfs, but refind-btrfs is awesome.

  • refind-btrfs

    Generate rEFInd manual boot stanzas from Btrfs snapshots

    Like GRUB has grub-btrfs to automate this process, refind has refind-btrfs. I never tested grub-btrfs, but refind-btrfs is awesome.

  • efifs

    EFI FileSystem drivers

    I think you can also add btrfs filesystem support for sd-boot by including the EFI drivers for it on the EFI partition instead, from https://github.com/pbatard/efifs/releases I think. Haven't tried it myself though.

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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