Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS

> These attacks are very much real and have existed in the wild for over two decades.
> There is nothing hypothetical about them at all.

Yes they've existed, no they're not hypothetical, but they're totally outdated and pointless nowadays when it's both ultra-cheap and effective to develop a browser malware and that this has become by far the most effective way to steal users' information to the point that it's an industry now (look for "malware as a service").

Sorry but I do not want to mess up with that secure boot. It's only as secure as my ability to use it properly, which is basically zero.
However it surely guarantees that I will eventually lose my data when not being able to recover my system after some bugs, crashes or other issues with my machine.

We should not force the user to endure pain that is designed to "protect them" against their will from attacks that are not relevant to them. We should instead educate users to where risks are and how to care about what matters. We'd already make a much bigger progress if people stopped reading HTML e-mails...

While I had been seriously considering migrating from Slackware to Fedora a few months ago when slack15 was really longing to come, at least this discusssion just convinced me that it was absolutely not a good idea!