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I recently moved to sdboot and prefer its simplicity compared to grub. However they still missed the mark a bit, its folder tree on the ESP is a mess.

I’ll look into this but prefer kernels managed automatically by apt/dnf etc.



You are not clear; by "sdboot" do you mean systemd-boot?

The abbreviation is ambiguous. There are other bootloaders called "sdboot" such as this one:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/sdboot/

And this one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WiiHacks/comments/glx4dt/sdboot_eve...

Please try to avoid ambiguous abbreviations. If you do mean systemd-boot you only saved 5 letters and could mean at least 3 different tools, or maybe more.


Yes, sorry when installing in fedora you have to pass the string sdboot to the kernel at boot. Still kinda experimental.


sd-boot on Debian 12+ is mostly self-configuring, and the folder structure is just one folder? Not sure what's messy about that.


On fedora it is 10+. Do a tree command on the efi partition.


Fedora and other Redhat-related distributions are an exercise in masochism regardless of the bootloader choice.




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