I’ve recently been doing lots of switching between Linux (i run arch btw) and Windows on my home PC. However, I also do a lot of things remotely. This is fine when you’ve got a pure Linux box, but dual-booting on consumer hardware leaves much to be desired.
GRUB allows you to specify which boot option to select as default on your next boot (and only the next boot), which back-in-the-day I used to use to, in a slightly convoluted manner, reboot to Windows after defaulting to my Linux install. But I now use rEFInd as my bootloader, partly for the UEFI support, partly for the eye candy for the occassions that I am at my desk (or if someone else needs to use my PC, it’s much easier to get them to select the big Windows icon than scan through a list of boot options in the five second window they have before the default boots). rEFInd unfortunately doesn’t have this “next boot only” option.
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