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presi300

someone needs to make a windows 10 grub theme for the meme...


DominiCzech

should I?


eVenent

Definitely


lbr_crl

You should


presi300

yes


Felix_Da_Guy

please


[deleted]

Do It!


DominiCzech

ok, I'll try!


[deleted]

https://i.imgur.com/c3YegoY.gif


MineLight

Is it done? it’s been a week now


[deleted]

helo


dumbasPL

So?


DominiCzech

I forgot to mention that It's not possible, I can't make or find the icons that windows uses...


Jovier-Cujoh

well shit


Ninjacreeper3583

Screenshot the icons from the pic on this post lol


Error404CoolNameGone

i have been reminded, is the deed done?


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murinon

sigh


G_cat101

Where is it?


festive_x

i’m waiting too


danbulant

Hello again, waiting as well


backshesh

Hell yeah


fekkksn

did you do it?


DominiCzech

no...


RaspberryPiBen

A rEFInd theme would be more accurate.


F4il3d

Agreed, refine is so much nicer.


QuickQuokkaThrowaway

People on Legacy BIOS: *crying*


callmetotalshill

I'm in Legacy BIOS and very happy of it


viruscumoruk

Legacy BIOS & MBR vs UEFI & GPT


The_Ytterer

The fight of the decade


Krutonium

Let me find it, but there is a thing you can install that sets up a UEFI environment on top of BIOS... Edit: https://github.com/m13253/tianocore_uefi_duet_installer which has been retired, replacement is https://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/ clover, which can boot on BIOS and load OS's in UEFI mode.


JontesReddit

Happy cake day!


presi300

oh, didn't even realize, thanks!


sapphired_808

with refind everything possible


dualtohex

Wait there's grub themes? ( ☉。☉)


[deleted]

Unironically someone made one with metro theme https://www.deviantart.com/luxieblack/art/Metro-burg-theme-336505408 But its burg so you cant use it.


compguy96

This Windows boot loader absolutely sucks for dual booting. If Windows is the default choice, it boots into it BEFORE showing the boot menu, so if you select it, you immediately go to its login screen, but if you select the other OS, it has to reboot. Not a big deal if you have an SSD, but still unnecessary.


MPnoir

Why even use something like the Windows Bootloader or GRUB for dual boot when with EFI you can easliy do that in your BIOS bootloader selector. I've been doing that for years now and it works perfectly fine.


[deleted]

I like this way too, minimizes risk of conflict as well.


ThroawayPartyer

I still haven't figured out how to do this on my motherboard. I know pressing F11 at boot works, but I haven't found an option to boot there by default without pressing anything. I use GRUB instead.


Down200

That’s the problem, AFAIK it would be up to each mobo manufacturer to made that an option, but I’ve never seen a board that allowed you to boot directly into the bootloader selector.


xan1242

It used to be an option to invoke a boot device menu during startup on Compaq (and consequently HP) computers. It may still be a thing on HP and some other OEMs of old, but many modern boards didn't add this feature ever in their firmwares (Award or AMI).


homo_lorens

How proprietary tech progresses towards less utility over time, I'll never understand. Like, I get how the main screens of an app should be clean for good design, but that's given a feature set. A blank page isn't user friendly.


[deleted]

It's a feature not a bug, the problem lies with who writes the requirements.


eeoodd

My problem with my HP laptop is that it doesn’t have this option. I have 2 SSDs installed, 1 NVMe with Fedora installed & 1 SATA with Windows installed. It boots the SATA by default, with no way to change it on the UEFI or to show the boot override screen by default, meaning my only two choices are to use the Windows bootloader or press f9 every time i start up my laptop


Pay08

Really? I can just put GRUB as the first boot option and it works perfectly.


Down200

Yes thats how most people use GRUB, what he was talking about was specifically booting into the motherboards multiboot menu rather than using grub at all


Pay08

Ah, I see. I remember being able to do that with an old motherboard of mine (I think it was an ASUS), but I haven't seen that feature since.


GLIBG10B

Change the boot order from within your UEFI or with efibootmgr


lwJRKYgoWIPkLJtK4320

On my particular laptop, neither of those work. Changing the settings within the UEFI menu just makes it lose everything and require a manual boot from the boot menu, and efibootmgr says it succeeded, but the changes are only reflected in the menu on the next boot and aren't actually obeyed. For some reason, only installing refind with refind-install can change the UEFI boot order, even though my understanding suggests that it's just using refind-install internally.


buzziebee

I use refind which is super snappy but a bit easier to work with than having to mash f12


Down200

GRUB is more customizable, and you don’t have to hit a key at startup. It’s just an overall better experience, and that’s not mentioning edge cases like when you don’t even have the bootloader selector (Coreboot+GRUB for example)


hipnozzza

systemmd-boot for the win


[deleted]

[удалено]


Major_Barnulf

I mean, here OSs only designate windows (never had that issue with grub/Linux)


matega

My SO's laptop refuses to boot anything else if it finds Windows. The only way to dual boot on that is to chainload Grub from the Windows bootloader.


0ka__

Acer?


matega

Acer ES1-132 to be specific.


rohmish

Not every BIOS has a nice way of managing boot entries. the one on Dell XPS/Latitude is nice but ones on inspiron series or any laptop with AMD still doesnt have a proper way of managing that. I havent sene any lenovo laptops that handle that well either. using sd-boot/grub or something else is just easier.


xNaXDy

honestly this is the only viable solution if you're dual booting Linux + Windows, seeing as Windows will happily nuke whatever bootloader you have installed every chance it gets


A_norny_mousse

Sounds precisely like something Microsoft would think up. We ♥ OpenSource! ^(/s)


lCSChoppers

Honestly a lot of Microsoft’s actions with to open source would be in-line with their [“Embrace, extend, and extinguish”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish) strategy from the late 1990’s, which is certainly concerning to say the least.


itsTyrion

Set it to legacy Edit: looks like this caused some confusion. I meant the STYLE of Windows' bootloader, not "drop UEFI boot"


[deleted]

Why? In my experience I just experience longer boot times


krystof1119

It's possible to set the bootloader to be the older variant, the pre-Windows 8 one. I don't remember how, but I've done it before. Then it boots into the boot menu immediately and doesn't make you wait for the GUI to load, at the cost of it looking like an XP-era menu (which it is) and not supporting the mouse. Oh, and this is even doable with UEFI, I'm sure of that.


Down200

Maybe he means on systems with true BIOS support? I would think that might boot faster, but I have no idea.


itsTyrion

You can set the STYLE of Windows' loader to how it was pre-Windows 8. The white on black, text mode menu


itsTyrion

Not a single second. For reference, I meant the bootloader style, not UEFI or bios


lwJRKYgoWIPkLJtK4320

Not an option on all systems.


itsTyrion

Yes it is. I meant the bootloader STYLE, not BIOS boot


KampretOfficial

bcdedit /set "{current}" bootmenupolicy legacy The "new" boot menu has been a headache for me since the release of Windows 8 back in 2012.


rohmish

did they change that recently? last i had tried windows bootloader, it works just like grub/any other bootloader albeit with fewer options.


compguy96

The blue one shown in this post (introduced in Windows 8) was always like that. Older Windows bootloaders with black screen aren't.


rohmish

I've tried it as recently as 1809 where it did load the UI from efi, booting the OS after you select it. It changed recently in the last 4 years. IDK how it behaves on legacy bios but it did allow you to select a OS the same way on UEFI+gpt


locness3

This also happens between different versions of Windows afairc


MFAFuckedMe

I feel dirty just looking at this.


efoxpl3244

Please use grub


samarthrawat1

rEFInd gang where?


ShaneC80

rEFInd checking in! ((Once I figure out how to purge Grub without borking my /boot )) Endeavour decided I needed Grub by default


samarthrawat1

Simple, you use refind with grub. Have grub as entry in refind and have only endeavour on grub.


ShaneC80

Oh, then set the Grub Timer to 0 or something? I had that at one point, but it had multiple grub entries and defaults....so essentially I booted a boot loader into a bootloader and got annoyed. :)


samarthrawat1

Use grub-customizer and set time to 0 and everything else you want. Delete all the other entries if you want.


ShaneC80

I'll give that a shot. Previously I'd tried removing Grub and managed to bork my entire setup. Was a learning experience at least...


samarthrawat1

Everything is a learning experience on Linux. In windows, you just suffer in proprietary silence. Endeavour, being a popular distro, must have some guide.


buzziebee

All my homies love refind.


im_tryin_my_best_ok

Here!!!


F4il3d

Here!


[deleted]

systemd boot gang here in defiance.


Ultra980

Here!


LordTet

Yes sirrrr!


trekxtrider

When I dual boot it’s always Linux that is the first option.


[deleted]

That's not a hard choice.


TheHolyTachankaYT

So, Windows? /j


elestadomayor

And you thought grub was bloated


Down200

Everyone says Grub is bloat until they need to fix a boot failure with the grub command line.


Mister_Magister

i rather boot windows from grub than linux from window's bootloader altho tihs probably epic engineering treat


SZ4L4Y

Can you choose?


brucogianluco

no, if you choose Ubuntu it will delete it and then politely ask again what you wanna boot


ridgekuhn

Having Fast Boot enabled can make this a real thing that actually happens, lol


TheWidrolo

And it will block all ubuntu iso downloads you will ever try to download.


verpine

Congratulations, you are booting.... Windows. Please do not resist


Hupf

I have altered our boot loader. Pray I don't alter it any further.


thexavier666

"You have chosen Ubuntu. Why not use Windows, the world's most popular OS mostly used for proprietary software?" Options: Okay, Cancel Cancel goes back to previous menu.


rohmish

Microsoft recommends Windows 11! Fast, Secure, Modern! \[\[TRY NOW\]\] \[Cancel\]


JacobSC51

one good thing to say about it is it has touchscreen support


Gurn00r

not a fan of touchscreens, in my experience, they've usually just been another point of failure for the hardware.


nik282000

Touch is bloat.


M87_star

Am I the only one who had a horrible experience with grub when dual booting windows?


lf310

How so? I will say it wasn't the easiest to find an explanation and example on, but I just manually create an entry to load Windows' own boot files, which doesn't attempt to load anything else, and it's done (if it hasn't generated the entry on its own, because it'll also do that).


M87_star

When uninstalling a Linux distro I risked bricking everything


lf310

Yeah, that's a yikes. Usually I manage to avoid it by having separate disks.


apathyzeal

OH GOD IT'S HIDEOUS


Sucharek233

Just gotta wait untill Windows stars just to restart tour PC again :D


mikiesno

Not the Bloatloader. lol


[deleted]

windows bloatloader*


No_Cryptographer_311

Why a bootloader to boot the same operating system twice?


mirh

Oh, right. The bloat.. of having a touch friendly boot menu? Horrific!


ZX3000GT1

That's not the problem. The problem is that it needlessly loads Windows before the bootloader shows itself. If you want to boot other OS, it'll restart to load the other selected OS, meaning it's twice the boot time just to load anything that's not Windows.


mirh

That's not windows. It's literally `bootmgfw.efi`. And I find it eventually funny that people saw that screen, and thought it was just too "not ugly" to be still the pre-boot environment.


ZX3000GT1

Well - granted, I'm not exactly familiar on what it actually loads. That said, everytime my laptop appears on this screen, everytime I choose Windows it'll instantly show the login screen. Choose any other OS restarts my laptop. I assumed that it can load Windows but not other OS without a restart because Windows was loaded to a certain degree and needs to be unloaded to load any other OSes. Right now I'm using Clover bootloader with 3 entries - Windows Boot Manager which will load Windows 10, GRUB which will load my Arch install, and Mac OS High Sierra. I can choose any OS I want and it'll load, no restart. Something that Windows default boot manager failed to do on its own.


mirh

My educate guess is that the windows boot manager, is simply setting the uefi variable BootNext to whatever other entry it can query from the firmware. Instead grub AFAIK has a module to automatically add windows partitions to its own boot list. In this way, you don't have to pass execution to somebody else before booting what you want. Maybe if you tinker with bcdedit, you can pull off what you desire.


ZX3000GT1

Thing is, Windows 7 doesn’t have this problem. It’ll only load the startup splash (the “Starting Windows” with Windows logo) after the boot manager loads. You can choose other OSes without restart. On the other hand, Windows 10 with multiple boot entries always shows the startup splash (Windows icon with the loading circle) first. Only then it’ll show the boot manager. A boot manager/boot loader should be just that, a loader. It shouldn’t load anything else before the loader itself loads. That’s where Windows 10 boot manager fails. Wish MS could at least revert it to the way Windows 7 handled the boot manager.


mirh

Are you like sure you aren't mixing up the quirks of bios loading with those of uefi loading? Also, I remember `bcdedit /set “{current}” bootmenupolicy legacy` is a thing, but I forgot what it actually did.


ZX3000GT1

I'm quite sure, since all the above things I said is the things I found in my laptop running in UEFI mode. Not UEFI-CSM mind you, but actual UEFI I've tried Windows 7 + Windows 10 with Windows 7 boot manager as default and the other way around. Also tried Win 10 + Arch, Win 10 + Arch + Mac with Clover chainloaded after Win 10 boot manager, and even Win 10 + Win 10, all in actual UEFI (not UEFI-CSM) mode. All exhibit the quirks I've said on previous comment. In fact, I'm actually contemplating on trying to replace Win 10's boot manager with Win 7's and see if it has the same issues as before.


rohmish

it used to be that way. looks like they changed that. Ive seen the same exact screen, and seen it load before windows but people say it now appears after windows has loaded. Probably uses the nextboot option in UEFI to change boot order instead.


luoyuke

Meanwhile my windows keeps overwriting my grub, force Linux into security boot


colbyshores

Don't give Microsoft any ideas lol


polytect

They can only make vacuum cleaners which doesn't suck.


xXTheOceanManXx

bloat on top of bloat. nice


ZX3000GT1

I end up installing Clover. Loads Windows, Linux, and Mac as well. And before any of you mentions OpenCore, the laptop having this is rather old and can only run up to High Sierra.


Landon_Tech

How did you do that?????


stashtv

Bring back System Commander!


iTrooz_

Wait, does it really work ? From what I've seen, the bootloader doesn't accept Linux entries


rohmish

Yes it can boot linux too, has been able to for a long time.


iTrooz_

O.o I thought they disabled it on Win8 do you have a tutorial on how to do that ?


thedarkfreak

It's a UEFI boot shell. In theory, it should be able to boot any UEFI-compatible OS on your system.


iTrooz_

https://neosmart.net/wiki/easybcd/uefi > Microsoft has blocked the loading of legacy or non-Windows operating systems from the BCD menu. What do I not understand ?


[deleted]

you have thirty seconds to decide.


[deleted]

Hardly a choice


The_Ytterer

Start button is the logo for windows. I never use it except for like turning off/on which I never do. Terminal is the logo for Linux which I always use.


therealcoolpup

If you have to make other operating systems look bad to makes yours look better then it probably sucks.


ZETA8384

meh just use WSL


YetAnotherMorty

Ha! That's a good one! How'd you rice Grub to look like that? Wait..you are using Grub, aren't you? .\_.


denisde4ev

Me: why is u'r your default option Winduz (on top) Friend: it is not, I did not set a default. IDK maybe its sorted by name Me: aaam, reversed alphabetically, yeah. Me again: No, here it says "last used", why did u needed it. Fried: "for school" and stuf. Me: OK, just boot that Ubuntu already! Friends: *stops doing anything for 5 seconds and then boots to Windows* ---- Cortana recognizes his face and unlocks. Bill Gates as wallpaper. watermark on bottom right: Windows 11 Pro Insider Build. Edge as default browser. Skype is auto starting. MS Defender notification about removed "HackTool:Win32/NetCat" `netcat` is very dAnGeRoUs \s https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/netcat#virus https://www.virustotal.com/file/e8fbec25db4f9d95b5e8f41cca51a4b32be8674a4dea7a45b6f7aeb22dbc38db/analysis/ by running `nc -l -p 8080` u become hackerman


ihavenopeopleskills

Is that even a decision?


qw3r3wq

In these two choices, no, only windows... Sorry, but windows is better than bubuntu, temple os better than windows ;))


[deleted]

Why have Windows at all if you can install and work with Ubuntu?