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You're 100% correct.

But I'm gonna keep calling it BIOS anyway.

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.

You Eee Eff Eye

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?"

U-E-F-I

U-E-F-I

You-ee-ef-eye

Just pronounce each letter. Am I doing it wrong?

systemctl reboot --firmware-setup

This 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.

ÜFI

meanwhile flashing the bios is still called flashing the bios

I pronounce it the way I was taught when earning my A+ cert ten years ago, "you-fee". This is how I've always heard it pronounced by other professionals. The only time I've heard it pronounced differently is by non-professionals.

That being said, I still use the term "BIOS" when referring to "the firmware interface" for the simple fact that if you call it a UEFI and it's a BIOS, someone will smugly correct you. Other way around, nobody bats an eye.

Same with SSL instead of TLS for some reason

U-E-F-I You ain’t got no alibi You ugly Eh! Hey! You ugly!

Ideally, I pronounce it "Libreboot."

I say "yoofee", but it hasn't mattered so far because I'm pretty sure I've never actually said it to anyone.

I like UEFI because of the way it sounds. I bet most non-native English speakers agree on it's pronunciation.

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.

When describing the boot process, bios. When configuring some CPU or memory setting, bios. When talking about some specific boot menu config, uefi.

Uwee feee

fuck UEFI, it was a solution to a problem that Microsoft and all the tech oligopolies made up.

Covfefe

In French we just say UEFI.

(ok without joke, we say it letters by letters, they all sound different)

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?

Lately I've been bending people's names in cursive writing style out of coathanger wire.

The last name I made, I did not post. Why? I have no clue how to pronounce it..

Ogbuefi

It's the initializer for the bootloader for the bootstrapper for the initializer for the service manager.

…how did we get there?

I say the letters U-E-F-I but often say BIOS interchangeably