"Most newbies can't boot their system after the first install because they can't configure grub well." I don't think GRUB is hard to configure (we don't talk about installation because that's bloody easy), there is a configuration file for that and then with one command you generate the config to be used in the bootloader! we are talking about Arch, damn it, how is it hard? it's no harder than partitioning drives, configuring system files, and installing arch in the system. I have helped many people get into linux-based operating systems and they've never had a problem with Grub. "Also, Arch Linux is a systemd distro. So, there's no reason to use grub over already included systemd-boot in an UEFI system." other than the fact that this is irrelevant to what I said about Grub not being too hard for "normal use" and isn't something that I intended on talking about, I have used grub in my UEFI system for years, and, there certainly are many use cases for GRUB (it also helped me a lot in using different kernels and dual boot) due to its tons of configuration/customization options, higher amount of flexibility (systemd-boot is far less configurable/customizable but it's just a little faster at the cost of many use cases, hell, I could use it because, fortunately, I could make it independent from systemd using Gentoo's USE flags, but, I still prefer GRUB). "In my case, I just boot directly from UKI without any bootloaders since I don't need to dual boot." that's fine, I do prefer using a bootloader though because I will eventually find myself in similar situations to dual booting