When comparing EFI-STUB vs rEFInd, the Slant community recommends rEFInd for most people. In the question“What are the best Linux bootloaders?” rEFInd is ranked 1st while EFI-STUB is ranked 7th. 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 Best for multi-boot
Pro Very minimal
Very light as compared to bootloaders.
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
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.