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
    4·
    2 days 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

      • Axolotl@feddit.it
        6·
        2 days 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
          6·
          2 days 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
            21·
            2 days 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

  • Luffy@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 days ago

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

    • gian English
      1·
      2 days ago

      Not that this is not a problem in any other boot manager, to be honest…

      • Luffy@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 day 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