Fresh install Kubuntu 13.10: how best to partition the HD

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tuesday 26 November 2013 08:13:19 Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2013-11-26 13:38 (GMT+0100) A.J. Bonnema composed:
> > Windows will trash you carefully crafted MBR.
> 
> That is the same thing Linux installers do when they put Grub where it has
> no need to be on the MBR.

No, no, I installed Kubuntu a few days ago, yes, the Kubuntu installer is a 
PITA and did overwrite my MBR, at least I couldn't find how to disable 
installing GRUB. My machine is a Linux/FreeBSD multi-boot. I always maintain 
two Linux installs, but have much more Linux test installs, since I tune my 
Linux for audio production and want to be independent of any distro, assumed 
one should do a step into a completely wrong direction. My main distro is Arch 
Linux. However, there are many distros that allow to configure the install and 
there is no need to install any bootloader at all. Kubuntu is, sorry, not 
really a good choice for experienced users. It does provide an installer that 
likely has advantages for newbies, so it does set up a default install, that 
an experienced user never ever would set up in the same way and one of that 
drawbacks for experienced users is, that Kubuntu does install GRUB by default. 
Other Linux distros don't do this! So please, don't confuse the policy of 
*buntus with the policy of other distros. *buntu doesn't follow the KISS 
principle, *buntu doesn't follow upstream, by e.g. splitting packages, *buntu 
...,  IOW what you are pointing out is true for a few distros only.

Kubuntu, yes, it did overwrite the MBR with GRUB and did generate a completely 
insane grub.cfg, but Linux installers of other distros don't do this.

Regards,
Ralf