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Re: A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

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post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This one does have a screenshot, though, in the usual spot in the readme.

As someone unfamiliar with grub, the screenshot leaves me with more questions than answers

GRUB is a bootloader. A bootloader takes care of getting the operating system started up. It is also responsible for allowing the user to select between multiple operating systems at boot.

Re: A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

#42

Now someone needs to write a renderer so that the world-background camera also spins around!

It would be a pretty fun project to write a CPU software rasterizer that works in UEFI… (Obviously GPUs are out of the question, but it might be possible to use multiple CPU cores)

systemd-ueficpuzd

Re: A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

#43

On Rocky Linux 8, I had to change GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT to "gfxterm", then it would pickup the GRUB_THEME value. My kid uses Grub all the time to reboot into Windows to play Minecraft Bedrock Edition, this will boggle his mind.

My kids use the Linux bedrock launcher (unofficial). It's often a bit behind the latest release, but it runs much smoother than on Windows IMO.

https://github.com/minecraft-linux/appimage-builder/releases...

Re: A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

#44
Naturally, the project couldn't miss having a "bug" report which asks to move the code to a different Git host.

https://github.com/Lxtharia/minegrub-theme/issues/18

I get the ideals are on point, but it doesn't look like the place to campaign about it.

Hopefully the author doesn't have any anxiety or issue about politely saying "The issue description doesn't look to me like a bug in my code." and closing it.

Re: A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

#47
post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>reboot into Windows to play Minecraft Bedrock Edition And thus the "Extinguish" step is complete.

Noted open source application…Minecraft?

The Java Edition is almost shared source as they’ve intentionally made it easy to decompile

Re: A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

#48
post #44

Naturally, the project couldn't miss having a "bug" report which asks to move the code to a different Git host . https://github.com/Lxtharia/minegrub-theme/issues/18 I get the ideals are on point, but it doesn't look like the place to campaign about it. Hopefully the author doesn't have any anxiety or issue about politely saying " The issue description doesn't look to me like a bug in my code. " and closing it.

I agree that that’s a bit annoying but it is normal to use the Issues tab for feature requests and things like that. I guess that’s why it’s called Issues instead of Bugs

Re: A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

#49

Now someone needs to write a renderer so that the world-background camera also spins around!

It would be a pretty fun project to write a CPU software rasterizer that works in UEFI… (Obviously GPUs are out of the question, but it might be possible to use multiple CPU cores)

Just scrolling a panorama along would probably look good enough

I think the real game uses a cubemap so the camera is inside a cube with six textured faces which I guess should be easy enough to render if you wanted to do it properly

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