On 25/11/15 17:42, Felix Miata wrote:
Basil Chupin composed on 2015-11-25 16:48 (UTC+1100):
Why cannot people leave name of programs as they are Unlike Ubuntu and Fedora, and much like with KDE3 and KDE4, in the case of Grub(2), the openSUSE development team recognized the new/rewritten version "2" amounted to an alpha/beta/v0.x product that users would object to having foisted on them, and so included the possibility for users to choose either or both. That offering option dictates the use of a different name for one or the other. The openSUSE team opted for the different name for the newer.
I am not sure that I am following your argument here which seems to me to be quite unfollowable :-) . "...the openSUSE development team recognized the new/rewritten version "2" amounted to an alpha/beta/v0.x product that users would object to having foisted on them, and so included the possibility for users to choose either or both." The above just doesn't "compute" as it stands. If you were to state that it all boiled down to people who were downright stubborn not to switch from grub (legacy) to grub2 then simply say so :-) . I know that you were/are one of them :-) . However, the use of the combination of both "grub" and "grub2" in commands when creating a GRUB menu is a piece of nonsense only explainable by people with addled minds :-) .
The new offers things many people still do not, and may never need, at a price premium they are unwilling to pay. I'm glad they made the choice they did, offering us the choice we have. I enjoy the relative simplicity of the old version, and continue to use it only even in TW and Leap.
I cannot argue with you on this. I do not use UEFI in my BIOS nor do I use btfrs as my file system. But what may happen when I have to use either or when I have to dual boot with something like Windows 10 is another matter because, as I understand, one needs to use grub2 to be able to do so. I have no hassles with using grub2. It's quite simple really. I don't need to configure/write/edit my own files for grub. I simply issue a simple command of "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg" and it's all done. No tears, no gnashing of teeth. But, of course, there are some people who prefer to go thru the process of editing grub menu files etc just to say that they prefer to use grub legacy -- for whatever reason, probably along the same lines as those who held that the sun rotated around the earth or that the earth is flat - but who really knows, eh? :-) BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.9 & kernel 4.3.0-17 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org