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by userbinator 2499 days ago
Indeed. BIOS isn't perfect but it's small and simple and provides enough to boot an OS, whereas UEFI looks more like an attempt to create another OS to run before the main one. It's a great example of design-by-committee and second-system-syndrome.

Linus' rants on this topic are always worth a read: https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/efi.html

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See also Mathew Garrett's rant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2aq5M3Q76U
That was actually quite informative, thanks for the link.