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EFI is so much better
GPT you mean. Linux can boot in a non-EFI machine that has GPT disk partitions.. Windows can't because it's dumb.
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.
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.
I’m not having an AI boot my computer!
GPT is a partitioning table. EFI is a bootloader firmware interface.
MBR is also a partitioning table.
It is also a boot sector aka Master Boot Record.
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No I mean EFI. It is a much simpler than MBR.
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.
Yeah cause that's the only benefit 🙄
I can't see any other really 🤷.
Never wanted more than three partitions?
Actually, it's 4... and on one drive 🤨? No. I've always used a max of 2 on a drive.
With a swap partition and a split home directory, suddenly you don’t have enough partitions to dual boot
Yes you do, you just use subvolumes.
Not sure if serious.