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> UEFI is also a godsend in terms of fixing a lot of the legacy BIOS crap

From a user perspective, no, it is not. Booting is far more complicated with UEFI.






What do you mean? The boot menu now works with the mouse and I can click on the operating system I want to run.

And my bloody computer is potentially trying to make god-blessed network calls before the OS has even loaded, and before my machine even provides the bare minimum human interface, you want me to navigate cryptography?

The trusted computing initiative was a disaster to the learnability of the computing field.

Devs are users too. Especially the unskilled/ignorant ones.


I thought you said UEFI.



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