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The background (versions) and the yellow text change with each reboot :D

https://github.com/Lxtharia/minegrub-theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgeouYCwGI4

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 65 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I cannot fathom having my shit together to such a degree that my bootloader has a theme.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Or not at all and that's why it has one. (procrastinating)

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Ooh, fair point. We don't know that any of these options boot.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

I would have gone with GrubCraft but awesome otherwise.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Omg I love this

[–] TurkeyDurkey@piefed.world 10 points 1 day ago

This is so peak I'm going to cry

[–] Dagamant@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I completely forgot that grub could be themed… brb

[–] SteveTech@programming.dev 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can customise your console login with /etc/issue too!

Photo of a Linux framebuffer console

Woah, how did you make this??

[–] Ludrol@szmer.info 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Post ~~screenshots~~ photo please

[–] fajre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I completely forgot that grub could be themed… brb

lol

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nicely done. Im always too scared to break my machine by messing with grub. :)

[–] fajre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Nicely done. Im always too scared to break my machine by messing with grub. :)

Yeah, the first time I tried it (alone) I broke GRUB and had to reinstall Arch (but I have backups of everything and my dotfiles). Then I followed the tutorial and everything worked out!

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That is kind of awesome.

I wish Debian’s default Grub theme was less ugly; I know I could change it (and I have on other installs, but I’m quite lazy about theming these days. Part of it is I have a laptop that I rely on for college and don’t want to risk any theme glitches, so I keep its Debian install as vanilla as possible.

[–] fajre@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That is kind of awesome.

I wish Debian’s default Grub theme was less ugly; I know I could change it (and I have on other installs, but I’m quite lazy about theming these days. Part of it is I have a laptop that I rely on for college and don’t want to risk any theme glitches, so I keep its Debian install as vanilla as possible.

The first time I tried doing it (alone, without watching the video), I broke the system ;(, had a boot problem, so I had to reinstall everything again.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fun fact: you didn’t have to reinstall; you can actually boot up a live usb and chroot into your install to fix things.

[–] fajre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Fun fact: you didn’t have to reinstall; you can actually boot up a live usb and chroot into your install to fix things.

That’s what I tried! But I couldn’t do it! I should have asked for help.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm sure you could have fixed it with GRUB Rescue. It's slightly annoying, but it isn't that hard to get booted from that. Once you get it to boot then you can fix things.

Don't give up so quickly next time. It's useful to learn how to fix it instead of just accepting failure and resetting everything.

[–] fajre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I’m sure you could have fixed it with GRUB Rescue. It’s slightly annoying, but it isn’t that hard to get booted from that. Once you get it to boot then you can fix things.

Don’t give up so quickly next time. It’s useful to learn how to fix it instead of just accepting failure and resetting everything.

Yeah, man, I even went into live mode to try to undo what I did, but I still couldn’t manage it (I should have looked for help). But since I have backups of everything and my dotfiles, I didn’t worry too much (though I was pissed, I won’t lie).

Meh. I'll be impressed when it plays Aria Math.

(j/k, this is awesome, I love it)

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Cool, I was using that (or one very similar) for a while also. I have changed that to a Fallout Theme for Grub some time ago.

Grub theming is such a great little feature

[–] SethranKada@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago
[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have my system select the default option really quickly, so I don't see GRUB. This makes it tempting to not do that, but I think I'll accept the convenient option instead of the cool option still.

[–] fajre@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I have my system select the default option really quickly, so I don’t see GRUB. This makes it tempting to not do that, but I think I’ll accept the convenient option instead of the cool option still.

On mine, it’s already set to boot into Arch automatically. It shows in the bottom right corner: “Joining world in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.” It’s really cool, man!

[–] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

I love this. Might steal it later if I'm feeling ambitious one day

[–] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago