Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS
Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS
Posted Apr 24, 2022 6:48 UTC (Sun) by johannbg (guest, #65743)In reply to: Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS by Conan_Kudo
Parent article: Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS
The installer still supports installing Fedora on non uefi platforms.
Fedora will still work on non uefi platforms, it's just considered unsupported
What their change proposal effectively just does, is to open up the door for *other* change proposal to make further changes in Fedora which more or less will involve the elimination of the technical debt in Fedora that has been gathered since it's inception around legacy bios support.
At best it flips a switch or two for component defaulting to uefi but the fact is various upstream have already start defaulting to uefi and will eventually do code cleanups that drops any support for legacy bios regardless what downstream "feels" about it.
Those distribution that feel so strongly about it will have to carry and maintain everything themselves, they should not expect upstreams to do that *for them*.
Improving UEFI experience can and should be handled by a different change proposal in Fedora ( not that I'm seeing how since the experience from the installer is not "bad", the rest is relevant to upstream as in no downstream contributor is going to change that, let alone some individuals that are doing change proposal in Fedora, which is just a marketing gimmick for the distribution ).
