18 Mar
2020
18 Mar
'20
4:48 a.m.
On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, Clem Cole wrote:
The first time I blundered into UEFI was when I tried to boot FreeBSD on a
newish PC, and of course it was not an authorised CD, was it? Or
something like that; anyway, I'm a great believer in allowing idiots to
shoot themselves in the foot if they so desire.
-- Dave
Can't say
the same for UEFI, I disable that crap.
Well, it beats the crap out of IBM's BIOS, but that bar is very low.
UEFI was sort of a 'camel' (a horse designed by committee) and too
many people peed on it. Intel created EFI to try to fix BIOS and then
people went nuts. Apple's version is the best of them, but as you say,
they all suck if you have seen anything better. A big problem IMO is
that EFI tried to be somewhat compatible. In the end, they were not, so
you got the worst of both (new interfaces and legacy functionality).