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Introducing BootSelector, GUI utility to set grub default boot entry (github.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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BootSelector is a tiny GUI utility for setting any grub menu entry as default.

It also allows you to reboot into any OS/kernel in your grub menu.

The initial version has been tested on the latest Ubuntu 24.10 and should work on other Debian-based distributions as well.

An RPM for fedora will be released soon after more testing is done.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel like this yast been done before.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

System configuration with OpenSuse's Yast seems miles ahead of all the others (at least those I have tested 🙃).

It doesn't look particularly nice. German functionality over design. And that it does well. One can do A LOT with it. Plus it's free even in Tumbleweed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You're tempting me to give it another try after over a decade. I used to daily drive Opensuse with KDE 3.5

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Go for it.

fantastic installer
stable even if you use the rolling release (absolutely solid if you pick Leap)
fantastic out of the box experience (usually GNOME for me)

... and so forth. I don't get paid to write this. 😄