Me: hey, can I have my bootloader be pretty?
Bootloader: sure! here's the themes, it should take 30 seconds to fix.
Me: can I have my bootloader boot straight into linux instead of booting into grub?
Bootloader: ...........no.
Technically it's apparently possible to do this, but it seems like there's about 30 reasons it could be doing this, all of them require different fixes, and apparently mint will reinstall grub if I uninstall it then update the kernel. >:?
I went with mint because everyone said it was the best distro for total babies, but I keep having problems with it where I want something more complicated than what it offers.
@Mirzaba yeah I think I might have to try something else. I don't even like cinnamon that much! I just went with it because it came up the most when people recommended distros for beginners. My brother's on Ubuntu too, I'll have to give it a shot
@c8rz A bigger problem than that with mint is that it's one of the most insecure distros. Ive been told by everyone that the best easymode is still Ubuntu, which I have dualbooted. Tho if you like Mints desktop enviros like cinnamon, you can still get it on ubuntu