At first mostly smaller issues, but they started to pile up, with me not being able to find any solutions for them.
But then one of the updates in July killed grub, despite me always using the recommended commands after each update, causing me to lose access to the system. I was not skilled enough to recover it as all the guides didn’t really give me enough information for me to handle my encrypted setup, so I tried getting help from their forums, where I then got insulted, gaslighted and trolled by a few users, trying to put the blame on me for using grub instead of the default bootloader, completely ignoring the fact that grub very much was the default boot loader, to the point where a moderator ended up locking & hiding the thread, so that it wouldn’t leave a bad look on them, telling me I should probably create a new thread if I still need help. I decided this would be my last time with EOS.
I think the default bootloader might depend on some config, because for me grub also wasn’t the default, I had to reinstall it once though too, but that was because I accidentally booted into windows and it instantly gave me an update which messed up the whole efi partition.
No idea if I have an encrypted setup though.
I’ve barely used the forum so I don’t know about that.
Thanks for the info though.
I’m not talking about dual booting but other Linux bootloaders during the installation. I’ve not had a Windows installation for several years now. If you don’t know whether you encrypted your drives or not, then you likely didn’t. Either way, if they are it makes figuring out their correct ID’s quite complicated and confusing, which was part of the issue. All the related guides to that topic sort of assumed I already knew what the hell I was doing, hence why I tried to ask for help.
At first mostly smaller issues, but they started to pile up, with me not being able to find any solutions for them.
But then one of the updates in July killed grub, despite me always using the recommended commands after each update, causing me to lose access to the system. I was not skilled enough to recover it as all the guides didn’t really give me enough information for me to handle my encrypted setup, so I tried getting help from their forums, where I then got insulted, gaslighted and trolled by a few users, trying to put the blame on me for using grub instead of the default bootloader, completely ignoring the fact that grub very much was the default boot loader, to the point where a moderator ended up locking & hiding the thread, so that it wouldn’t leave a bad look on them, telling me I should probably create a new thread if I still need help. I decided this would be my last time with EOS.
I think the default bootloader might depend on some config, because for me grub also wasn’t the default, I had to reinstall it once though too, but that was because I accidentally booted into windows and it instantly gave me an update which messed up the whole efi partition. No idea if I have an encrypted setup though. I’ve barely used the forum so I don’t know about that. Thanks for the info though.
I’m not talking about dual booting but other Linux bootloaders during the installation. I’ve not had a Windows installation for several years now. If you don’t know whether you encrypted your drives or not, then you likely didn’t. Either way, if they are it makes figuring out their correct ID’s quite complicated and confusing, which was part of the issue. All the related guides to that topic sort of assumed I already knew what the hell I was doing, hence why I tried to ask for help.
In my Installer grub was not the default bootloader but I had a selection and picked grub since that’s what I know.
Not knowing what id your drives have sounds very problematic no wonder you had troubles. I wish you best of luck with your new setup though :)