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I own a repair shop so I’m sure my perspective comes from spending an unusual amount of time in UEFI/BIOS over the course of the years, but I find that they remain perfectly usable with a keyboard.
Most modern UEFI have an “advanced mode” (usually F7) that is a lot closer to traditional BIOS layout and navigability. I actually get unreasonably bothered when trainees insist on fumbling around with the mouse in “Easy Mode”
There’s so many options in modern UEFI that there are two features I’m actually incredibly grateful for:
The “Favorites” systems, so that you can have all of the settings you’ll actually change all in one place
The “Profiles” systems, so that you can easily hop between configurations
Without those, the onion meta-game of finding options that are arranged differently on AMD vs Intel or between different motherboard vendors is a rough time.
I'll have to check for that.
For work, the only thing I typically configure via the console is the iDRAC settings and do everything else from there. But in my homelab, I've got a bunch of late model Optiplex USFF PCs (rising electricity rates forced me to downsize from the PowerEdges I used to run). Configuring a recent batch of those was a complete exercise in frustration, and I don't recall seeing anything like an advanced mode listed, but TBH, I wasn't looking for it either.
In the OEM / Laptop / Prebuilt space I’m definitely seeing move of a pivot towards graphical UEFI, that ones with forced mouse navigation are currently the exception but when I come across it I hate it.
I wish it was usable with a keyboard. Mine doesn't power up until the os starts loading.
anyone knows what key is used for "advanced mode" on dells? i tried f7 but no worky
Everything I described relates mostly to motherboards for custom builds (ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, etc)
Dell doesn’t have an “Advanced Mode” and profiles are limited to one “save as custom user settings” option.
Unless something has changed with their absolute latest models, their UEFI usually follows a “tree” layout that is super navigable with a keyboard. Arrow keys, spacebar, and the TAB key ought to get you everywhere you need to go - the latter being necessary to jump from the tree on the left over to managing the different settings on the right.
The bios I got on my laptop has effectively 0 keyboard navigability, no shortcut to search, scroll wheel does not work, sensibility is off, somehow only works properly with the touchpad and fails to work with a generic cheap usb mouse that as as far as I can tell is fully complaint to the usb spec as I have had 0 issues with it in any OS without the need for any custom drivers, tab navigation is effectively non functional, arrow key navigation is not there at all, there a "advanced mode" that I discovered with Dell's custom software that allows changing bios settings from a live OS with the use of custom WMI_ACPI extensions not documented anywhere that I can find from which I can enable a hidden advanced mode that simplies showa more options in the bios but doesnt overhaul the navigation, it shows very advanced options that surely shouldnt just be shown by default such as battery charge limmit, battery start charging threshhold, and many other misceleanous settings that have no reason to be labelled as "advanced"