LEGACY VS UEFI- Worth the trouble?

[stilly]

Has anyone noticed the difference between the UEFI and LEGACY BIOS systems that are being put into all of the new mobos?

Do they really fix any issues that you were concerned with or is it just a newer way to do the same **** as before?

I never realyl had any issues with the old stuff. It was pretty ****ing simple, turn on the machine, go into the BIOS setup your boot drive and sequence and adjust a few other thigns, then head out and boot into an install disk to install ths OS.

NOW however, you gotta go into the BIOS, check taht you are gonna be LEGACY or UEFI and then hope you have all UEFI crap or it aint gonna work and you get put back into Legacy, and then while in UEFI there is no more boot sector? Did I see that right? So the Motherboard boots with the BIOS and then it HANDS OFF to the hard drive or whereever the OS is and it finishes booting up?

It just sounds like we are setting up more complicated **** to fail. I about punted a computer out of the window yesterday trying to get Win7 to install onto an EVO 840 SSD. 3 hours wasted fighting with it. I thought the EVO SSD was able to handle the UEFI but apparently it aint so because it did NOT show up as UEFI in the BIOS. Yeah so anyways, just curious. I kinda like it, but I am proceeding with caution.

[Satex]

UEFI is the next gen framework supporting secure boot amongst others. It's good stuff but you won't notice performance improvement. BIOS will be dead in a few years. Nothing to sweat over, not worth rebuilding a machine for unless you have Win8 and secure boot is relevant to you.

[CaMakarovnik]

UEFI lets you boot to a GPT partition style hard drive. Down the road this may be important, because you can have up to 18 exabyte (exabyte!) volumes, but unless you are editing video professionally at home, you don't need this.

Secure boot is no big advantage if you web surf with due regard for trojans/viruses.

[CessnaDriver]

Wasn't there a recent big potential security problem with UEFI discovered?

[stilly]

What about Linux though How will this affect Linux? Or does it mean NOTHING for Linux?

The more I kinda read (eyes glazed over in a few spots) the more I saw Wintel and Microshaft trying to choke out other OSes by going THEIR way with these chipsets and BIOS decisions.

I saw this but did not get a chance to watch it yet. I was under the impression that UEFI might present more difficulties for Linux.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2aq5M3Q76U Gawd that is kinda hard to watch. I am not laughing when the others are laughing. I must not know anything about this... :\

I kinda like the idea of getting away from an MBR, but it is irritating when things happen and I am not ready for them yet... (yes the world revolves around me...). :\

[the86d]

I have had UEFI fail to work more than not, everything set correctly, yet didn't work.
Set it to legacy, and it works.

The NSA must be behind it... for easier HDD firmware "UPDATES".

I don't know much about it, but I assume that it might introduce similar issues that iPhruity devices had where it could be exploited to charge batteries until they explode: https://www.google.com/#q=firmware+mac+explode

[shotcaller6]

I'm liking the UEFI, so much better than legacy.