What's the benefit of SystemD over GRUB?

[Keyboarder]

Hi.

I have had Debian dual-booted for quite some time now, but I have recently gained interest in switching to EndeavourOS. On Debian, I have only had experience with GRUB, so I don’t know too much about SystemD. I do know though that the EndeavourOS installation process gives you the option to choose either one.

My question is, what will I notice different by switching to SystemD?

[dalto]

The first post here details some of the differences:

[Tutorial] Convert to systemd-boot

Updated 12/22/2022 to match the method used for installing systemd-boot in Cassini and later ISOs Several people have asked me for a tutorial on how to convert an existing EndeavourOS install to systemd-boot, an alternative to grub. The first question is who should install systemd-boot. From my perspective, here are the reasons to install systemd-boot systemd-boot is less complicated than grub. It uses simple text based config files which only contain a few lines It is less prone to breaka…

[BONK]

There is no benefit. It’s Linux the choice is up to you.

[kagetora13]

There is a good document and chart here showing the features of the different boot managers:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_boot_process#Boot_loader