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    Can't relate to be honest, I still use MBR boot (sh.itjust.works)
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    [–] [email protected] 68 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    EFI is so much better

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    GPT you mean. Linux can boot in a non-EFI machine that has GPT disk partitions.. Windows can't because it's dumb.

    [–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Yes but by doing so you're using the same principles as MBR boot. There's still this coveted boot sector Windows will attempt to take back every time.

    What's nice about EFI in particular is that the motherboard loads the file from the ESP, and can load multiple of them and add them to its boot menu. Depending on the motherboard, even browse the ESP and manually go execute a .efi from it.

    Which in turn makes it a lot less likely to have bootloader fuckups because you basically press F12 and pick GRUB/sd-boot and you're back in. Previously the only fix would be boot USB and reinstall syslinux/GRUB.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

    I just had a bug on both of my EFI computers where they wouldn't boot any more and a grub-install fixed it, apparently the regular update processes do not update the version on the ESP for some reason and my assumption is that it became incompatible with the modules in /boot

    Adding an EFI Boot Entry for netboot.xyz after it happened on the first one really helped fix the second one though.

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

    I’m not having an AI boot my computer!

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    GPT is a partitioning table. EFI is a bootloader firmware interface.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    MBR is also a partitioning table.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

    It is also a boot sector aka Master Boot Record.

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

    No I mean EFI. It is a much simpler than MBR.

    [–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Not in my experience... and apparently a lot of people that dual boot 🤷.

    My main boot partitions are far from the 2TB threshold of MBR, I'm not that rich.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Yeah cause that's the only benefit 🙄

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    I can't see any other really 🤷.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Never wanted more than three partitions?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Actually, it's 4... and on one drive 🤨? No. I've always used a max of 2 on a drive.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    With a swap partition and a split home directory, suddenly you don’t have enough partitions to dual boot

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

    Yes you do, you just use subvolumes.