@roguescholar said in Why you should replace Windows 7 with Linux:
setting up any kind of dual-boot configuration and you're running a UEFI system, this is the only way to go about it, trust me.
I'm writing on behalf of my dual-boot Tower, after she recently read your post. In no way is she decrying potential benefits of rEFInd; she does not know, either way, as she's never used it. She did however ask me to respectfully challenge your assertion that
this is the only way to go about it, trust me
My Tower happily boots back & forth between my ArchLinux KDE & SparkyLinux Cinnamon systems, using nothing but humble grub & os-prober. Each OS was installed as UEFI+GPT, & i chose to let the Arch bootloader "dominate". My Tower graciously accepted this arrangement.
Here's the last two lines of her /etc/default/grub, which let the !=magic occur:
### guigirl: Appended the following so that Arch grub will see my Sparky boot:
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
In your initial paragraph you explicitly mentioned windoze, so she did wonder if maybe unspoken in your second paragraph was an assumption that anyone wanting to multi-boot would "naturally" want windoze + Linux. However your actual words are so firm, with your use of
any
and
only
, that it seems you really do mean any & all forms of multiboot irrespective of OS. In that case, my Tower begs to disagree with your bold statement. You don't even have to trust me; this post was written without any BIOS. 😇
