At first I read "Florida". It was weird that Phoronix was covering that but still didn't ring a bell
Real title makes much more sense

You're talking about hats, right?

I think I've actually touched CD/DVD for the last time in 2012/2013... I should be fine

It's probaly not needed at this point. You can get flash drives crazy cheap.

I mean I still use the iso attached to a virtual cd-rom to create virtual machines

So boot floppies are right out?

Damn it, on the very day my DVD burner arrived, right after the weekend when I switched to Fedora Atomic Sway. Oh this universe.

Besides the corrections others have said, I really can’t think of any reason people would intentionally use legacy BIOS on a machine with UEFI for a new install.

Like, I could get doing it for an old install - I know someone who installed Windows 7 in 2015 on their then-new desktop build and later upgraded to 10 but is stuck on legacy BIOS for now with that machine because 7 only ran on that.

I could see something similarly jank happening to someone in the Linux world and then decide not to address it for “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it reasons”, but certainly not for no reason.