to all you legacy BIOS and MBR fans MBR doesnt cut it and is cause of many headaches if you dual boot. That's neither here nor there. You can still perform BIO

to all you legacy BIOS and MBR fans MBR doesnt cut it and is cause of many headaches if you dual boot. That's neither here nor there. You can still perform BIOS boots from a GPT-partitioned disk, in fact it works even better: while in MBR mode the stage1 grub loader must be placed in the unused 31kB between the partition table and the first partition start, GPT allows you to explicitly allocate a partition for the stage1 code. This means no more borkage because Windows overwrote an officially unused part of the disk, and the stage1 payload is no longer limited to 31kB. Point being, your rant has nothing to do with BIOS vs UEFI boot.