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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Thank you for the clarification! I don't super understand your clarified version either but it helps me conclude this seems unlikely to be important to me or affect my use case 😅

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 6 points 9 hours ago

It shouldn’t, you probably have a modern setup. Super high level is that: UEFI is like a mini os on the mainboard, replacing the old bios chips that were very limited, including on partitions on disks: max 2 physical (whereby the 2nd was used to embed “soft” partitions), and any boot code was confined to cramped spaces, below certain amounts of blocks and cylinders etc, hence the peculiar /boot partition. UEFI had to support this of course, but it’s at best like wearing clothes that you accidentally washed at the highest temperature: bleak, way too tight in uncomfortable places and prone to tearing.