Bootloader Themes | Install & Configuration

bootloaders the thing that we all should be using if you have multiple operating systems having a awesome bootloader on startup like this or this or this and there's some other ones but i i could literally just show bootloader images all day long because it's just so amazing but loading some of these themes up can be cumbersome i'd say can just be a bit of a headache for most and i've used like grub customizer and other things in past videos but i didn't want to use that in this one this one i created my own project something that anybody can use i wanted the one click easy install you just select out of my top five themes that i see today so what i did was i downloaded all the assets for these top five i created my own install script so then you can just click it and go so with that let's not waste any time and jump right into it all right on our desktop here i have this link christitus.com forward slash bootloader dash themes now i created a github with all these assets in here uh i don't know if i'm going to be able to update this should the assets change so as you scroll down on each theme i add the source to gnome look so you can easily go here download it directly and some of them have install scripts some of them don't some of them have to mainly install but i didn't want to do any of that that's why i didn't just show how to link from the original source i wanted to just make my own github project with these five themes which are cyber re cyberpunk fallout vimx and shodan i think these are just beautiful themes and something i wanted to just cover so with this one click installation we'll just come up here go ahead and click copied to clipboard just click that and then launch your terminal and then just simply you can right click and paste or you can just middle click to paste it all in here at one go what this does is it goes out and downloads all the assets for the theme and launches the script it says hey which one do you want to install and my favorite all these is actually the first one cyber re so i can just type number five and it'll go ahead and install that theme so let's go ahead and see it takes about a couple seconds and then we just simply reboot our pc should come back up see cyber re and we're going to go ahead and do this a couple times just to show you the different how easy i made it to change the theming here comes our startup got our bio screen and there we go we got arch linux and windows and we could actually customize these a little bit if you don't if you have a whole bunch of options sometimes there's advanced options and recovery options you can launch grub customizer and remove some of that which i'll show but let's go ahead and boot into arch linux real fast i am using a custom kernel you kind of saw it flash up just for gaming but there we are we'll log in and let's go ahead and change this theme up again we'll just go cd top 5 bootloaders look at that we'll just do a sudo install.sh type in our pseudo password and we're presented with this again now let's go ahead and change this to showdown because this one actually from gnomelook didn't have a very good installer script or it might not no it didn't even have an installer script so this is one i just kind of created to go with it because i thought hey this artwork is fantastic and i'd love to see that with that we'll reboot again here it comes and boom showdown there we go now let's change this from windows boot manager to windows 10 real fast just to show you a slight modification as i want to make this as easy as possible so we'll launch grub customizer every single operating system has this uh on linux so whether you're ubuntu arch whatever it might be everyone has grub customizer and if you do have grub customizer you can actually come in here remove any entries that you don't like if you don't like any of the advanced ones go ahead and remove them another thing i like to do is uncheck generate recovery entries i don't like that either so i actually remove both those and we're actually going to edit this a little bit we're going to change it from windows boot manager and we're just going to call this windows 10 and we'll hit the little check box and okay and it kind of just changes that we'll hit save this should update the configuration and we should have a different look to it so we'll quit this out i just wanted to make sure on the bottom right it gives you a progress bar make sure that finishes and let's go ahead and change it one more time we're going to change our theme again back in our top 5 bootloader directory we're just going to do a pseudo install one more time now we have cyberpunk fallout cyber re out of these let's go ahead and switch it to cyberpunk or actually we'll go vimix that has a little more of a clean aesthetic more neutral minimal setup that a lot of people like this is actually one of the best gnome look boot loaders out there by far the most popular i think the highest rated as well and as you see it's so clean so stinking clean that's why so many people love it but there we are we saw the rename of the operating systems and we also have a new theme and just for completionist's sake let's uh check out some of those other themes real fast we'll switch it over to fallout now and with fallout in let's reboot and there's our fallout theme kind of like a retro kind of neat right now the next one we'll try is the other one and that's makes the top five which is cyberpunk coming back into our directory one more time and cyberpunk is being installed and we'll just go ahead and reboot this boom so those are my top five but i have one more thing to leave you with that is just a lot of fun and i think everyone should know this about grub boot loaders i'll go ahead and show you some of the setup coming back into here just launch grub customizer one more time under general settings you will find some other stuff in here if you want the actual boot entry to be longer by all means do it if you have any special entries that you want to add to this by all means you can actually add them here a lot of people like no mod set if you're like an nvidia card user and you can't get your desktop to display you might need to add this but since i already have nvidia card drivers installed i don't need to put no mode set in there and appearance settings this is one thing in grub customizer a lot of people try to do i've never had this work right if you ever need to do modified or actual custom changes to grub uh we're gonna actually just go quit without saving i like to come right into the terminal and whatever text editor you want to use here just do a pseudo etc default and then you want to do grub and we'll use them to open this guy up you can use nano you can use g edit if you want a more graphic editor by all means pick your poison but you can see the command line to do no mode set would be right here if you wanted to do it from like tty which doesn't have any graphics i'll hit control alt f2 go right into tty no graphics if you have just a black screen try ctrl alt and then f2 to get to the screen and you could launch right into here do all these edits from terminal without ever having a desktop which is great so if you ever run into problems remember ctrl alt f2 or f3 to get into this control alt f7 will get you usually back on your desktop and if you aren't seeing a grub and you're using grub come down into here under grub timeout style sometimes instead of menu this is hidden you would actually need to put menu here and again grub timeout at the top here make sure this is set to five or above because sometimes if you're using a tv it might take more than five seconds if this wasn't a traditional monitor i usually always add another five seconds just for the grub menu to pop up as far as any of these other settings to manually set the theme how i did these scripts was just changing this one line at the bottom this forces that theme in to where this would be my login and it would change this specifically so just to show that we'll change it back to my favorite theme that's in the top five which is that cyber re and we'll just do number five cyber re and this just adds that into that file and changes that line and we'll just showcase that real fast come down to the end and you can see it changed that one line and that's just kind of what your grub should look like this script will automatically update this for you and get everything the only things that you really need to be wary of is if your grub timeout style says hidden instead of menu and if your grub timeout says something other than you know 5 or let's say it's zero you'd want to put it to five or maybe even 10 seconds depending on how much you want to be there also if you're having boot problems take out quiet this will actually just show more things that are happening on boot and you can troubleshoot your computer a little easier that's how you do a custom boot loader easily tell me what you guys think in that in the comment section do you like these how i did the scripting to make this a lot easier as i know some people had a lot of problems with boot loader themes and be sure and hit the like button as well subscribe all that youtube jazz so other people can watch this video if it helped you and with that i'll see you in the next one

Channel: Chris Titus Tech

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Length: 9min 46sec (586 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 05 2021