Yoo-fi? Yoo-ef-ee?
They shoulda made it easier to pronounce if they wanted people to call it that
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You’re 100% correct.
But I’m gonna keep calling it BIOS anyway.
It does seem to serve the same purpose, an “OS” under the OS so 🤷
I don’t think the OS is the same in BIOS. It is “Basic Input Output System”
Seems like it should be BI/OS, then, haha.
Something something bi erasure
Which operates the system
Common misconception, it actually stands for Basic Initial Operating System /s
BIOS sounds good. It’s got that cold hard logic stamped steel ring to it.
“We’ve got the update the BIOS”. Okay. Everyone understands that.
The BIOS boots before the OS. Got it.
“Make sure to configure your UEFI”
“My what?”
Your use of “everyone” is a nice example of xkcd 2501
I think BIOS has just morphed into meaning the firmware interface, nobody calls it UEFI. Everyone does indeed just say BIOS, which is okay. You can be more specific when it matters, which is basically never in the mass market.
Like asking for a bandaid. Everyone knows what you mean, and asking for one and getting a generic bandage isn’t going to matter.
ADHESIVE MEDICAL STRIP
In America. Bandaid is not a word outside there, what is it? A brand name?
Yes, a name brand of adhesive bandage, just like Kleenex or Velcro or Xerox.
A “plaster” in the uk
Yet it’s named in such a way, people maybe would be able to guess what it is
Yet if you guessed bandage, that’s not an actual bandage is it? From the other comments, I’ve learned it’s a ‘plaster’ or adhesive dressing.
I think, I saw it in some movie or heard about it already, so I am not representative of this. If you guessed a different thing, I was wrong and it can’t be inferred, as in the same way a seller may guess wrong
Yeah, I mean. It’s just a Basic Input/Output System.
U-E-F-I
You Aint Got No Alibi
You Eee Eff Eye
This one
meanwhile flashing the bios is still called flashing the bios
Uweee Eff Aye I met a girl online that literally called it Uni Extee Feee because it rhymed and sounded better to her and it drove the other techs she knew crazy.
Wifey that woman!
Would that I could… she was already taken.
systemctl reboot --firmware-setupThis will cause a Linux machine to reboot directly into the UEFI. I know it’s not groundbreaking but it can be really handy if you use fast-boot. At least your days of pecking the Delete key during POST will be over.
Windows does this too, though I’ve forgotten the method.
This will cause a Linux machine to reboot directly into the UEFI.
That’s weird, on my machine it reboots me directly into the BIOS.
Sidenote: if you dualboot, I can’t recommend enough setting up a desktop entry which runs this command:
systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=auto-windowsIt’s basically a one-click Windows launcher.
I tried it but nothing happened. Mainly because I wouldn’t let Windows touch bare metal anymore for anything.
And even if I was dead in the ground would I rise again if someone tried to insert Windows into my usb-holes
Sidenote: if you dualboot, I can’t recommend enough setting up a desktop entry which runs this command:
Excuse my ignorance, but what’s the difference between this and GRUB?
You have to interrupt the boot process to make a selection in grub, the one-liner above makes that one-time selection for you in advance. So you can walk away and get a coffee while your computer does the OS switch.
You are telling your computer you want to reboot your computer and then boot into Windows unattended (you can walk away and unless Windows crashes itself, it might be running).
They don’t have to time it. It’s a full blown second industrial revolution
I mean, unless you’re trying to access it at boot time. I just Ctrl+Alt+Del and hit an F button or look it up.
Actually, your instruction complicates it. Just put it on the boot splash, ffs.
U-E-F-I
Ué fí(o)
EUGH, that’s like a whole extra SYLLABLE
(but this is also how I say it)
Or just uefi.
üfi, got it.
You-ee-ef-eye
Just pronounce each letter. Am I doing it wrong?
That’s what I’ve always done, though someone mentioned their native language being the conflict, so maybe in other languages the E sound is better marked with an i for some, no idea.
Is that just a style pose, or does she have back problems from carrying that. Is that what the arm guard is for? To rebalance her weight?
When describing the boot process, bios. When configuring some CPU or memory setting, bios. When talking about some specific boot menu config, uefi.
Doesn’t a UEFI provide a system for basic input and output?
So by that metric, isn’t a UEFI, by default, also a BIOS?
I mean, very technically speaking, it’s a set of standards for booting and it doesn’t give a shit how platform init is implemented. “a UEFI” usually means the whole thing, so yes. Usually.
Same with SSL instead of TLS for some reason
