UEFI vs Legacy

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PublicLewdness
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I remember when UEFI first came out I got a very negative opinion of it partly because Microsoft was pushing so hard for it but also because Windows 8 was even more of a nightmare with it on I found. So I never got off legacy and still use it on all my systems. My question is should I be switching ? Is there a privacy or security argument for one or the other ?

jxself
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"My question is should I be switching ?"

No need to choose between door #1 or door #2; instead pick door #3 and move to a computer with libreboot and sidestep the entire issue.

PublicLewdness
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"No need to choose between door #1 or door #2; instead pick door #3 and move to a computer with libreboot and sidestep the entire issue."

See now that is something I can get behind. I was unaware that Libreboot got rid of that issue. Thanks for the response.

Parodper
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You do not sidestep anything with Libreboot, you still need to choose between them. To answer OP, choose UEFI. Legacy is deprecated.

jxself
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"you still need to choose between them"

Not really. Libreboot has a completely different boot process where coreboot is used to initialize the hardware and then control is then transferred to a grub payload in the flash chip. The usual BIOS/UEFI services are not present.

redflagrun
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Always Will Hate UEFI an TPM