GRUB
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
6warn against
Nov 17, 2025first mention
Aug 25, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“you could map out the bad memory with a Linux GRUB boot parameter”
Caveats and dissent
“feels a lot saner to me than grub ever was”
building a ZFS NASon “How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNA…”
“it can load and use the NVMe EFI driver unlike GRUB and systemd-boot”
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“Grub does suck yes”
“a lot more secure than grub”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Grub was, in a very real way, a botnet.”
built Grub crawler; now runs own agentic crawler for researchon “An Update on the scraper situation”
Threads where it came up
- Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE 5 mentions
- Minimal x86 Kernel Zig 3 mentions
- Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines 1 mention
- An Update on the scraper situation 1 mention
- How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS 1 mention
- I am giving up on VM Gaming 1 mention
Also written as Grub. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 20
“it would make a great replacement for GRUB or rEFIt”
“feels a lot saner to me than grub ever was”
“you can then select Windows from the GRUB OS chooser menu”
i love HN but also starting to think it's time for us oldies to have our own one: cost of entry, having a distant memory of booting linux from a floppy
Or even better: https://zfsbootmenu.org/
“Now I use grub, because I don't know much better.”
“it can load and use the NVMe EFI driver unlike GRUB and systemd-boot”
There's also systemd-boot, which seems to be getting more popular. https://systemd.io/BOOT/
“using grub for booting both windows and arch”
“Grub does suck yes”
“add the kernel modules and update GRUB as usual”
“https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/badram.html”
“added the capability to build a bootable ISO with a GRUB menu”
“I used grub”
“If you want to use Grub, this tutorial works”
“GNU GRUB is a GNU project, yes.”
“you could map out the bad memory with a Linux GRUB boot parameter”
“sign grub with your own keys”
“I've been putting it in the Grub boot menu”
“a lot more secure than grub”