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Grub2 vs Windows Boot Manager

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When comparing Grub2 vs Windows Boot Manager, the Slant community recommends Grub2 for most people. In the question“What are the best boot loaders/managers?” Grub2 is ranked 2nd while Windows Boot Manager is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Grub2 is:

Only requires 2 commands most of the time (i.e. grub-install ... and grub-mkconfig ...).

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Pros

Pro
Easy to install and setup

Only requires 2 commands most of the time (i.e. grub-install ... and grub-mkconfig ...).

Pro
Support for a large number of Operating Systems

Grub can load a large number of operating systems, not just Linux.

Pro
Easily locates a kernel file

Grub is very file-system aware. This way, it can easily locate a kernel file which is residing in the file system without having to specify a logical-sector.

Pro
Has an interactive CLI

Grub has an interactive command line interface which can be very helpful at times if anything goes wrong during the boot process, especially after a fresh install or after a kernel update.

Pro
Supports BIOS

Has BIOS support unlike other bootloaders which only support efi or uefi.

Pro
Default Windows bootloader

Since Windows Vista this has been the default bootloader for any Windows OS. This means that it should work perfectly fine with any Windows installation without the need for further configuration.

Pro
Windows safe mode

Can boot up in safe mode.

Pro
Includes WinRE

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Cons

Con
Slower boot times

Grub has slower boot times than most other bootloaders.

Con
Fully-featured also means harder to wrap your head around

Grub has a lot of features that other boot loaders may not have. But this also means more time spent on the documentation if you want to know the ins and outs of it.