It does seem to serve the same purpose, an “OS” under the OS so 🤷

Your use of "everyone" is a nice example of xkcd 2501

This will cause a Linux machine to reboot directly into the UEFI.

That's weird, on my machine it reboots me directly into the BIOS.

Sidenote: if you dualboot, I can't recommend enough setting up a desktop entry which runs this command:

systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=auto-windows

It's basically a one-click Windows launcher.

Handy thanks

I mean, unless you’re trying to access it at boot time. I just Ctrl+Alt+Del and hit an F button or look it up.

Actually, your instruction complicates it. Just put it on the boot splash, ffs.

That's what I've always done, though someone mentioned their native language being the conflict, so maybe in other languages the E sound is better marked with an i for some, no idea.

Ué fí(o)

Or just uefi.

EUGH, that's like a whole extra SYLLABLE

(but this is also how I say it)

I work close to firmware and this is how we all say it, and we say it often. When speaking to execs it's always said by pronouncing each letter. You can watch us code shift (lingually) in meetings depending on who is asking the question.

Like asking for a bandaid. Everyone knows what you mean, and asking for one and getting a generic bandage isn't going to matter.

Yeah, I mean. It's just a Basic Input/Output System.

You Aint Got No Alibi

This one

🤔

This breaks down for professionals that are self taught though. For example, I still to this day, say in my head "F-Stab " for fstab, instead of "F-S-Tab", and various other terms I learned when i was learning linux myself when I was 13. Didn't understand at the time that it stood for filesystems table, so f-stab is how I pronounced the term in my head. In the UEFI case, I'll just pronounce each letter at a time, U-E-F-I.

If it helps, I worked at a BIOS company on one of the early UEFI firmwares (with Intel, who created the thing!) and we called it U-E-F-I, and same also at the major PC vendor I later worked for.

Much later I really cringed the first time I heard someone from MS say yoo-fi, but I've had to come around 😅 So I personally blame M$!

No worries that I'll ever fuss at you over BIOS vs UEFI unless we're dealing with a bootloader. Just make sure you have your boot order set right, and your secure boot settings the way you like (assuming UEFI), and the bootstrap fairy will bring your OS 🧡

Is that just a style pose, or does she have back problems from carrying that. Is that what the arm guard is for? To rebalance her weight?