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  • well, I just assumed Grub because in my experience, almost all Linux systems use Grub. I’ve never actually heard of Limine.

    as for using different bootloaders for each operating system, that doesn’t really make sense to me. it’s technically possible to install different bootloaders on each SSD (and that might be what the installer does by default, if it doesn’t detect the presence of the existing operating system), but the point of a bootloader is to choose which operating system you want to boot, so if you set up a separate bootloader for each operating system, then you’d need a way to choose which bootloader you want to boot.

    there actually is a way to do that, on most computers at least, you can use the BIOS/EFI boot menu to select which bootloader you want to boot. but I don’t think this approach really offers any advantages over having them share a bootloader.

















  • The end of my usage was about one year ago. I’d tried several other clients in the years prior (Fractal, Nheko, Mirage, and some others I forgot the names of) but all of them had their own major issues, severe enough to eventually drive me back to Element

    It’s certainly possible the ecosystem has matured somewhat since then, but I would be skeptical because I think the root of the problem was not that these projects were too young, but that the protocol was too complex for anyone to implement properly, much like the web