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You're doing the thing where you confuse the need for a feature with the need for a particular implementation of that feature. Again, UEFI is really awful. Lo

• yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
  > You're doing the thing where you confuse the need for a feature with the need for a particular implementation of that feature. Again, UEFI is really awful. To be clear, I would have preferred that the universal booting solution was Open Firmware. But I'm pragmatic; UEFI is already widely used, so I'd rather have any universal standard rather than a fragmented ecosystem of non-standard options. I don't care that it's ugly, I care that it works and that it can get the market buy-in. > Look at ChromeOS. ChromeOS is a single OS from a single vendor, albeit running on multiple architectures. I don't know enough to know how beautiful it can be internally, but in practice a boot firmware that can't boot arbitrary BSD and Linux OSs is useless to me, and the ChromeOS firmware is, to my knowledge, only supported on Chromebook hardware and by ChromeOS and a tiny number of Linux distros that target Chromebook hardware. Ecosystem effects matter.