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Add to SafariWhen comparing rEFInd vs BURG, the Slant community recommends rEFInd for most people. In the question“What are the best Linux bootloaders?” rEFInd is ranked 1st while BURG is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose rEFInd is:
REFInd is really good with automatically with finding your operating systems, leaving all that manual configuration as totally optional.
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Pros
Pro Automatic kernel discovery
REFInd is really good with automatically with finding your operating systems, leaving all that manual configuration as totally optional.
Pro Beautiful theme support
REFInd allows easy theming with fonts, icons and backgrounds to give you a customized and beautiful graphical bootloader.
Pro EFI only
Focuses on one type of system.
Pro Text based configs
It can be configured with text files.
Pro Easy to install, easy command
Pro Hard
Pro Graphical
A big con is that it can show graphical menu to select your OS and there are numerous built-in themes to choose from. Also you can easily install others.
Pro Based on GRUB
Since it's based on GRUB, it can handle everything GRUB can, which means it's pretty full-featured.
Cons
Con EFI only
REFInd supports only EFI or UEFI systems which, while common on the latest systems, is a relatively new technology. BIOS-based systems are not supported.
Con Buggy mouse support
Con No more updates
The project seems dead and haven't had any updated since 2013.
