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What's different is that using loadlin on MS-DOS was "lol, fuckin' newb" material (even though it was exquisitely functional and ridiculously easy to use), whil
by ssl-3 3y ago
What's different is that using loadlin on MS-DOS was "lol, fuckin' newb" material (even though it was exquisitely functional and ridiculously easy to use), while the potentially very similar EFI system is a heralded as a champion.
I guess I am trying to express my annoyance with the Linux crowd's fickle nature over the years.
- Latty 3y agoI'm not sure that's on the Linux crowd: UEFI is what the hardware ships with, they don't really have much of a choice.
- ssl-3 3y agoMy own (perhaps old) hardware gives me a choice of old-school BIOS, or more-modern UEFI. (But perhaps amusingly-counter to my original suggestion, old-ass archaic emulated BIOS seems to still be preferred in some spaces in the VM-using crowd -- at least where things like libvirt are involved. In those spaces, BIOS usually works fine and it generally boots faster than *EFI.)