It was a pretty good overview, the secureboot stuff was needlessly condescending. Referring to UEFI as the "BIOS" is incorrect but is used commonly in the "IT

It was a pretty good overview, the secureboot stuff was needlessly condescending. Referring to UEFI as the "BIOS" is incorrect but is used commonly in the "IT World" (along with loads of other incorrect stuff...). The BIOS is understood as the thing where you configure basic hardware settings. I don't know if we're going to win that battle. The Windows equivalent of efibootmgr is bcdedit. It isn't well documented. In general, I think if you have the option to use UEFI and GPT they are better than the alternatives. I disable Secure Boot when installing Linux but I haven't installed it alongside Win 8 yet. The "you have to be in UEFI mode to install an UEFI-bootable OS" is an important point.