[Software] Is the 'grub-customizer' rubbish?

I am hearing at the moment in the 'German Debian forum' from several people, that the 'grub-customizer' is dangerous, makes a lot of trouble (for instance: every time there is a kernel upgrade), can not be cleanly removed and requires for a complete new installation of the system in case of.

I had experienced that issue
viewtopic.php?t=155719
with 'UEFI firmware settings' showing up in the grub menu and leading to a reboot loop on 2 ASUS boards here in conjunction with newer BIOS versions. So my intention was to remove that entry from the grub screen. Easy way for me, install 'grub-customizer' and use it. And that was in 9/2023.

That is, what I did in 'grub-customizer'

and I don't have any issues with that. Just works.

Looking here, it seems there will be the the 'grub-customizer' in trixie and sid
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/grub-customizer
and in the the bugreport, I can not see a lot of requests, to get rid of the program ....
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgrepo ... customizer

Am I wrong using that program and am I risking my installations?

Are those warning I hear a bit exaggerated?

br - KH

Statistics: Posted by kalle123 — 2024-12-30 10:24 — Replies 3 — Views 82

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