I loved grub (1)--being able to fix a boot configuration issue during boot time was such a amazing upgrade over lilo. When I first saw grub2 and learned how it

I loved grub (1)--being able to fix a boot configuration issue during boot time was such a amazing upgrade over lilo. When I first saw grub2 and learned how it worked it struck me as the platonic ideal of the second system syndrome[1]. Everything about it was more complicated, expansive, configurable. The fact that they need `grub-mkconfig` is a sign that it went horribly wrong. I had not heard of systemd-boot, I will check it out… [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect