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Re:Windows 8 & Metro with Mouse and Keyboard - Super User Blog by tikhonj on Friday March 09, 2012 @03:43PM (#3685840)
I think the comparison with Grub is a little unfair--if you look at a distro like OpenSUSE[1], the grub screen actually looks very good. You still can't use the mouse, but I would happily trade speed for that, especially since using the keyboard to select the right system is easier and faster anyhow.

[1]: http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tikhon/openSUSE-grub.jpg

That said, I'm really happy that people are moving towards prettier interfaces everywhere. Why don't distros like Ubunutu or Fedora do the same?

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Re:Windows 8 & Metro with Mouse and Keyboard - Super User Blog by bp_ on Friday March 09, 2012 @03:45PM (#3685847)
Actually that's a comparison I meant Grub to win.

To reiterate and clarify: if the price to have all the bells and whistles of the Win8 bootloader is to have it take as much time to load as the entire damn operative system you're loading in the first place I'll prefer the very basic and functional interface of Grub immediately.

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Re:Windows 8 & Metro with Mouse and Keyboard - Super User Blog by rbanffy on Saturday March 10, 2012 @01:50AM (#3687275)
I agree - this comparison is not exactly fair. The labels on Grub are defined in the grub config file - it's perfectly possible to make them less cryptic. Also, good luck trying to make the Windows bootloader load anything other than Windows.
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