Floppy disks used to have a tab to lock them (write only mode). The whole secure boot thing could be solved by having a switch/tab that you would have to use wh

Floppy disks used to have a tab to lock them (write only mode). The whole secure boot thing could be solved by having a switch/tab that you would have to use when you want to make changes to your bootloader. This would fix the secure boot issue and let us use our beloved BIOS. In different jobs I have hear coworkers spending several hours dealing with UEFI in order to be able to install linux or enable multiboot. As a final user I don't see any added value except for the secure boot. As others has pointed out here if a malware has enough access to rewrite your boot probably they could do a lot worse stuff like installing a keylogger, a fake browser, encrypt/steal your data, etc. UEFI looks to me like Inte ME. A tech that it might make sense for enterprise, servers, etc. but not to the final user. Looking forward to let Intel alone and use more open alternatives but I know that it is very hard to get the same computing power/features in other platforms.