Refreshing the Ubuntu Desktop Installer

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Would be great if this incorporated an option to use systemd-boot. GRUB2 is so slow!

Installing Ubuntu with systemd-boot

Could we have an option in Ubiquity to use systemd-boot instead of GRUB? With UEFI in all modern PCs it’s now possible to load kernels directly by adding manual entries in firmware’s menu, but systemd-boot provides simple menu with kernel versions and autoentries for Windows/etc. Moreover, Boot Loader Spec and systemd-boot depend only on simple text files + kernels on ESP. It would be nice, if Ubuntu could provide systemd-boot out of the box. There’re some example hooks like this one, but you ne…