There are many great community made GRUB themes to spice up your bootloader before booting into your system proper. Unfortunately, they’re spread across multiple sites and it can be difficult to find good ones. As another user told me, the majority of themes on Pling (the largest host of GRUB themes currently) are fairly low effort and can be boring to trawl through. Hence, I decided to put together this page to bring attention to some decent themes I’ve found around the internet over time. They aren’t all absolute masterpieces of course: But they’ve all at least had a fair amount of effort put into them, with custom backgrounds, fonts, and colours.
And don’t forget, themes are extremely easy to customize! Like a theme’s layout but prefer a different background?
7 Comments
marcodiego
What I really would like: something that mimicked the old SGI start up, complete with boot audio and a micro distro for OS setup. These days, with snapshot filesystems, that shouldn't be too hard. Also, I've had to chroot to fix my system in my life a few times; I can't believe that's hard to automate.
userbinator
I'm a huge proponent of customisation, but for me, the less I have to see or even think about GRUB, the better.
PebblesHD
While these are cool, I honestly wish GRUB was silent unless you’re holding a key during boot. The 5 seconds it takes to go away and just boot the OS by default is really unnecessary.
arp242
"Grand Theft Gentoo": https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jacksaur/Gorgeous-GRUB/ref…
WD-42
Stuff like this is why I fell in love with Linux. Some amazing creativity in here. Almost makes me wish I dual booted with something so I’d have an excuse to see grub!
Grosvenor
I can finally make my computer look like the ones from hackers! Awesome.
jwitthuhn
Love the concept of BSOL, might give that a try.