Visor is a new open-source UEFI boot manager for Linux, designed to launch kernels, UKIs, Windows, and other EFI applications.

This looks interesting. It’s very new, so it will likely be a while before any OS would adopt it, but it definitely shows promise of a possible alternative to grub down the road

  • ColdWater@lemmy.ca
    3·
    1 hour ago

    What’s wrong with grub?, for me grub and nano are one of those softwares that’s always reliable, it got my back when I need it the most

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      4 hours ago

      you can tell these are better because they’re shorter than the original. lol

  • murvel@feddit.nu
    21·
    11 hours ago

    Finally, I can replace the cold dark text of Grub with the warm embrace of an Anime girl when I boot.

    We live in the future people!

  • Luffy@lemmy.ml
    3·
    9 hours ago

    Its nice and all until you forget to delete your 20 kernels + recovery

      • Luffy@lemmy.ml
        1·
        30 minutes ago

        If you look at something like fedora images, its something like fedora Linux 7.13.1-201.x64.f44, And this only gets worse once you get to something like the surface kernel

        So probably it will shorten the names to something like Fedora Linux, but then you won’t know what you want to select if anything goes wrong

        What I mean is that boot managers are like static friction: it’s a theoretical thing that simply does not impact you as long as youre moving, until the moment you stop at which point it becomes real and starts pushing back as strongly as you configured them to be

        Just make your grub wait 3 secs before booting, it isn’t worth saving that one press on the enter key

      • Axolotl@feddit.it
        10·
        11 hours ago

        The repo seems pretty legit to me, good readme, commits clearly written by a human, there is not coding agent in the contributors

        I didn’t check the code tho

        • istdaslol@feddit.org
          7·
          7 hours ago

          the repo was all uploaded at once, so there wouldnt be a agent as contributer. Since the initial there were 40 commits per day, mostly small changes. So my guess if it was made with an agent its done in a normal chat window and than copy pasted in the repo. Not the most elegant way but ideal to hide the use of AI. And since we dont have a trustworthy day 0 it can be either be done in a day or they could have been working on it for a year.

          It could be a rework of the rEFInd Boot Manager, wich they “credit” in their README

          • Axolotl@feddit.it
            2·
            3 hours ago

            The commit history is basically only

            • …
            • update config.h
            • update config.c
            • update main.c
            • update gui.c
            • …

            It just looks like they don’t know how to use git well and is making a commit for a single file instead of multiple ones

  • overcast@lemmy.zip
    22·
    17 hours ago

    that’s awesome

    the thing with systemd “taking over”anything also has to do with it offering options that actually lessens efforts

    nice to see another option apart from systemd-boot

    this is the kind of things the uBlue project would be interested in looking forward to

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
      6·
      10 hours ago

      There’s also rEFInd, in case you didn’t know. What we actually need is a stable and usable efistub manager.

    • muhyb@programming.dev
      11·
      12 hours ago

      I actually like systemd-boot more than GRUB. I see it for 1 second, so I really don’t see the point of theming a bootloader but this is the world of freedom. Any preference is welcome.

      • dingleberrylover@lemmy.world
        3·
        7 hours ago

        Same. Been using systemd-boot for years now. 0 issues. With Grub I had my fair share of trouble. Nothing too critical, but just another thing to worry about.

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      18 hours ago

      the problem with systemd taking over anything also has to do with it offering options that actually lessens efforts

      You systemd haters are practically feral. WTF does this have to do with systemd?

      • overcast@lemmy.zip
        12·
        17 hours ago

        not hating, just saying that now that systemd-boot is being seen as a “modern” successor to GRUB it would feel to people who don’t like systemd like “oh no they’re replacing another standard tool with their own thing”

        but the thing is, a lot of systemd tools have been adopted because they actually made work easier for people maintaining projects

        I’m using Universal Blue as a reference because of their position of adopting novelty tools like bootc even before Fedora

        now, their newest project Dakota is going to use systemd-boot to provide a full chain of trust

        maybe systemd-boot seemed like the best option, it’s not like sD devs forced them to adopt their option

        so it’s nice to see ACTUAL good projects so the freedom to choose doesn’t always mean giving up to the “best/easier” option

        • non_burglar@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 hours ago

          it’s not like sD devs forced them to adopt their option

          It kind of is, though. You dont typically select your preboot environment, it’s selected for you.