Well, probably I did not state my question clearly. The title of this thread is "Slackware on UEFI," and I imagine things have changed at least a little since the thread was first started, so my question is similar to the initial post: how compatible are Slackware 14.1, UEFI and Win 8 on the latest hardware?
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On the Slackware side few things if any have changed. What matters is the specific UEFI firmware of your machine I think, as the implementation of the UEFI standard vary upon machines.
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Well that's interesting: a standard that is not standardized. And people wonder why some of us can't stand Microsoft.
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PS Sorry to be a bit pedantic but a specification is not exactly a standard, as the latter should be released by some normative body, as e.g. ISO. |
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If you then have questions then create a new thread to get help here at the Slackware forum using a descriptive title like; 'Slackware UEFI installation issues'. Just a suggestion. I do like to suggest the following links for user that have issues when composing posts; Quote:
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Thanks dugan, I read the thread you linked, and some of the other stuff linked there. You seem to think it was easy to set up by following the Slackware UEFI readme, but a lot of other people seem to have had trouble with it, which still makes me hesitant. I'll have to do some more reading and pondering before I'm ready to commit money to new hardware.
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As much as UEFI is standardized, mobo manufacturers still differ in their implementation much like BIOSes. In general it will work just fine. Some implementations are easier to work with, others harder.
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As for stories about "bad" motherboard firmware, the worst problem I've heard of is that the boot menu would be built properly, but the default would stay at Windows, forcing you to press F-something to get into Linux on each boot. I personally wouldn't consider that a dealbreaker.
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