i think they are switching to dracut from initramfs so that might of jacked up your grub menu ?
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I didn't realize that was happening 🤔
That's a change I've actually made on my Debian based systems for a while. Use dracut, ditch grub, and just boot the kernel straight from uefi.
efibootmgr is awesome.
i read somewhere they are planning that, but i'm not sure when they are making that change.. ..seems like they would wait until the next LTS in 2026, but who knows
Y’know I’m not sure. However when I went back to 22.04.5 the update system still tried to move me to 24.04.2 (Noble Numbnut is what I’ll call it). On pristine installation the upgrade left Ubuntu 22.04 unusable… likely due to the move to Wayland .. ultimately the solve for me was go to Jammy - do NOT upgrade to Numbnut and tell it never try..
sounds like a mess 😬
Coming from Ubuntu I’m honestly surprised by this nonsense.. they’ve been way better about this in the past.
I understand the desire and need to move away from the x11 protocol.. while it’s stable it’s also bloated. And the server-client model requires a LOT of bandwidth comparatively speaking…
I mean you could NOT do x11 anything on dialup when dialup was king…. And trying to maintain x11 based apps cold could be a real PITA years ago. Not to mention Wayland is way faster and far more inherently secure but even with their adapter adoption has been slow…
But FFS when the upgrade kills the desktop and you can’t log in??
Anyway you can read more about Wayland vs X11 here.
https://www.howtogeek.com/900698/what-is-wayland-on-linux-and-how-is-it-different-from-x/
i’ve just stayed on X11 because it still works for my use case ..kinda plan on testing Wayland in couple of years
Well if you use Ubuntu you won’t get much say in the manner.. 🤣