Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 10:27:25AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> And we can take incremental steps to get there, even now:
> 
> 1. Switch Anaconda to default to GPT even on BIOS setups
> 2. Drop syslinux and use GRUB everywhere
> 3. Configure new installations to always do hybrid boot installations
> 4. Develop documentation and/or tooling to do MBR->GPT conversions and
> reconfigure for hybrid boot for existing systems
> 
> These are all reasonably achievable things we can do. And that gives
> us time to work our relationships with our stakeholders to prepare
> them for the day legacy BIOS support is gone from the entire Red Hat
> family of distributions. It also gives room for improving the UEFI
> experience so it's *at least* as good as the BIOS one, if not better.
> Right now, it's not. And it needs to be in order to maintain the
> momentum we have now where Fedora Linux adoption is growing by leaps
> and bounds over the last couple of years.

This is a very concrete actionable and achievable proposal. /me likes.

Zbyszek
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