Systemd-boot vs GRUB for Dual-Boot

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Hello everyone. I’m planning to Dual-boot EndeavourOS (as main OS) with Windows 11. I never tried install any other OS except Windows.
Because I tried EOS only on VM, I can’t know how bootloaders systemd-boot or GRUB will behave with my Dual-Boot system.
Also, I want to choose between 2 EOS boot options in bootloader: linux-zen kernel and linux-lts kernel, so i can switch to linux-lts kernel if something will break in zen. Will this affect on my dual-boot system?

So, what is the better bootloader for dual-booting? Any differences between them?

Thanks for your comments.

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With only (2) systems, either will work fine.

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They both should support everything you mention.

Other than personal preference, the primary reason to use grub is because you want to boot off of btrfs snapshots. That is why we kept the option in the installer.

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I’m suprised Limine hasn’t made it as a bootloader option into the EndeavourOS installer yet, it supports booting from snapshots as well.

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Our goal isn’t to support as many bootloaders as possible. It is a lot of support to maintain more bootloaders.

We switched to systemd-boot and kept grub to support the btrfs use case. I suppose we could consider dropping grub and adding limine but I am not sure there would a lot of advantages in that or if the community would want that.

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I know. I have seen a lot more people talking about Limine, including a review about EndeavourOS that mentioned Limine would be a good alternative to Grub and it supporting both BIOS and UEFI. I do have to agree that Grub is more well known to most people but I think it would be a cool chance to do something new.

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