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.
I say the letters U-E-F-I but often say BIOS interchangeably
U
E
F
I
“yeffy”
Bunified Ixtensible OEM-firmware interfaSe
it’s really quite simple. The B is silent because it is French.
Yoo-e-ef-eye you heathen.
But in all seriousness, yeah…
Uefefe
Firmware
You-ayy-fee
You-ee-ef-eye
Just pronounce each letter. Am I doing it wrong?
Seriously this. What’s up with people pronouncing tech acronyms? It’s not “gooey”, it’s G-U-I. I’ll make an exception for file formats (llke .gif), because they’re written with lowercase letters.
This whole snafu is fubar.
What does lowercase have to do with anything?
The only thing that differentiates an acronym from an initialism is if it’s easily pronounceable as a word.
GUI is. GIF is. PDF is not. NASA is, NSA is not. SCUBA is. LASER is. FBI, ATM, URL, FYI are not.
That’s really it. UEFI doesn’t have a real direct pronunciation to it. So it’s just U-E-F-I.
I do say gooey though. Because it’s easy to pronounce and has an existing English equivalent homophone.
UEFI does not.
I also say Wizzy Wig.
And usually I say sequel instead of SQL. Though I think I switch back and forth with that one, probably based on context, but I can’t explain when or why now that I’m trying to think about it.
Gooey is ubiquitous though.
I only every hear people say that, or “graphical user interface”, never “GUI”
and what about BIOS ?
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.
I am just gonna say BIOS in english because to this day i have no idea how to pronounce UEFI, fucking english…
/uefi/ in my language
Covfefe
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.
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?
I tried it but nothing happened. Mainly because I wouldn’t let Windows touch bare metal anymore for anything.
Handy thanks
Weffi
